Section 9.4 Flashcards
Grierson’s Raid
Grant ordered colonial Benjamin Grierson to raid Mississippi and in two weeks they Tour up railroads destroyed depots and unable to grant to move his trip south of the city
The fall of Vicksburg
Key players: Ulysses S Grant
Victor: union
Significance: cut off city’s food and supplies I am bombarded it until it’s defenders gave up
Siege
To cut off it’s food and supplies and bombard it until it’s defenders gave up
Foraging
Searching and raiding for food
Ambrose Burnside
On November 7, 1862 Lincoln phone McClellan and gave command of the army to General Ambrose Burnside
Joseph hooker
Replaced Ambrose Burnside, devised a plan to get at Lee’s troops on the hills near Fredericksburg
George Meade
After hooker failed Lincoln removed him and appointed him.
Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville
Key players: Joseph hooker and Robert E. Lee
Victor: confederacy
Significance: over 18,000 casualties ,Took the union by surprise because it had such a large army and it led to the battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg
Key players: George Meade, General George E Pickett, General Robert E Lee
Victor: union
Significance: The union victory Place the confederacy on the defensive and ended Robert E Lee’s most ambitious attempt to invade union territory
Picknett’s Charge
Mile wide line of Confederate troops marched across open farmland toward union positions on cemetery ridge
Chickamauga
Key Players: General Braxton Braggs and William Rosecrans
Victor: Confederate
Rosecrans and his forces are surrounded and fall back to Chattanooga where he finds himself completely surrounded by Braggs forces
The battle of Chattanooga
Key Players: William T Sherman, Ulysses S Grant, Braxton Bragg
Victor: union
Significance: gave union control of the Mississippi River and secured eastern Tennessee and clear the way for an invasion of Georgia
