Battle of Gettysburg

The battle of Gettysburg and Vicksburg murdered the confederacy’s course in the civil war.

The battle of Vicksburg’s main focal point was to gain control over the Mississippi river and dividing the South in Half, with the Anaconda plan. The confederates maintained control over the Port Hudson, Louisiana, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Abraham Lincoln announced that if they won over Vicksburg the war would be theirs to win. The Union General Grant implemented with all his might to achieve the task of gaining Vicksburg. But, the troubles were the defensive Confederates who shoot anyone who goes near the western edge. Grant created a military tactic to keep Vicksburg under siege. The defenders of Vicksburg were weakening because of the lack of supplies, they were hopeless, and finally they surrendered. Port Hudson also surrendered to the Union. The Confederacy split in two.

The battle of Gettysburg lasted three days. General Robert E. Lee invaded the North, specifically in a town called Gettysburg, to steal shoes for the Confederate’s uniform. July 1, some of the General John Buford’s military soldiers saw the confederates, so they started calling for reinforcements. The battle’s first day was successful for the confederates, they pushed the union into a higher ground to the south. The next day General Lee prepared his soldiers to divide themselves up in two so they could attack the northern part of General Meade defenses during General Longstreet aggression the southern end of the Cemetery Ridge. The union soldiers observed how there was a vulnerable position on Little Round Top. The Confederate’s raced to meet  the union soldiers, and a Maine unit of Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain who’s army was being attacked by the confederates. Soon the confederate’s ammunitions were finished and left them to surrender. The Union was still at its best. The next sunrise, day three General Lee aimed to destroy the center of the union;s line. The confederate soldiers used a cannon to break up the union defenses. The Union slaughtered the confederate soldiers with a riffle and a cannon fire. General Lee flied the invasion and took his hurt army to Virginia. The south swore they would never fight in Union soil again.

Casualties: Confederacy: 28,000 wounded/missing. Union: 23,000 wounded/missing.

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The Confederate’s are full of expectations and confidence. I admire the enthusiasm but they are hurting more soldiers than necessary. I am beginning to pity the south more than ever. The South’s biggest advantage was how this war is supposedly to be fought in their soil. If they fight in an unknown territory they will get massacred because they don’t have more soldiers or ammunitions that the North! I sometimes get so frustrated with the South’s reasoning. Robert E. Lee can’t rely on just his gut, he has to be logical.