We had our struggle with the south. They had defeated us many times. Our comfort was when General Jackson was accidently shot. Jackson died when he caught pneumonia But we had won the them in the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3. Gettysburg Address, the speech that president Lincoln explain that we're not just individual states but a whole nation. After president Lincoln speech, Meade's army of the Potomac, was defeating the confederates in Gettysburg. General Grant fought for Vicksburg, around the confederate stronghold along the Mississippi River. Grant won the battle.
