Transcript PPoint on civil war File

"THE AMERICAN
BROTHERS' OR,
'HOW WILL THEY
GET OUT OF IT?'"
November 5, 1864
(Lincoln and Jeff
Davis bound in
common struggle)
"THE FEDERAL PHOENIX"
December 3, 1864
(Lincoln rises from the ashes with his
1864 presidential election victory)
THE CIVIL WAR
1864-1865
By Hannah Moore
"BRITANNIA SYMPATHISES WITH
COLUMBIA"
May 6, 1865
(British eulogy to Abraham Lincoln
after his assassination)
1864
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March 12th: General Ulysses S Grant became
General-in-chief of the United States Army.
September 24th: fall of Atlanta – a key factor in
Lincoln’s re-election.
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June: Siege of Petersburg – lasted 10 months.
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November: Sherman’s March to the Sea.
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November: Lincoln’s re-election – majority of
supporters were Union soldiers.
1865
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February – Lincoln refused to recognise South’s
independence - peace talks with Jefferson Davis failed.
March 25th: Robert E. Lee’s forces defeated by Ulysses S
Grant’s men near Petersburg.
 April 2nd: Lee left Richmond and went westward.
 April 9th: Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox
Court House.
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April 14th: Assassination of President Lincoln by John
Wilkes Booth.
April 1865: Last Confederate troops surrender.
Remaining Confederate troops were defeated between
the end of April and the end of May.
1865
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May 1st: Battle of Anderson South Carolina –three weeks
after Lee surrendered to Grant.
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Confederates suffered no casualties and the Union forces had two
casualties.
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May 10th: Jefferson Davis was captured in Georgia.
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May 13th: The Battle of Palmito Ranch, far south of Texas last Civil War land battle
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ended with a Confederate victory.
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June: All Confederate land forces had surrendered by now.
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December 18th: Thirteenth Amendment to Constitution
ratified, abolishing slavery.
RESULTS OF WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
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Reconstruction began during the war and continued to 1877-an effort to
solve the issues caused by reunion.
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Lincoln and Radical Republicans disagreed on many points, including the
amount of federal control that should be imposed on the South, and how
Southern states should be reintegrated into the Union.
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Disputes were very important to political debates after the Confederacy
collapsed.
When Union forces arrived, slavery (3.5 million blacks) in the Confederacy
came to an end – Emancipation Proclamation.
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all forms of slavery had to be eliminated.
Slaves in the border states were freed by state action or (on December
6, 1865) by the Thirteenth Amendment.
The war produced about 1,030,000 casualties (3% of the population),
including about 620,000 soldiers—2/3 by disease.
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