1863 The Killer Angels Key Terms: Skirmish Line, Mortar Key People: Winfield Hancock, George Meade, Joseph Hooker, John Pemberton, William Rosecrans Key Places: Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chancellorsville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga <Tab/>By 1863, people were already saying that the war would last forever. There were already over 200,000 casualties, or a little more than all the casualties suffered in World War One by the U. S. Over 100,000 men were dead, and another 50,000 were crippled for …showed first 75 words of 2160 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2160 total…the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. -Abraham Lincoln *November 19, 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania