1. William Tecumseh Sherman
Ending the Civil War
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
William Tecumseh Sherman

2. Grant’s Strategy: Had Lee outnumbered, both of them knew it.
Pick up pace of the war, wear Confederates down
William Sherman divide the Confederacy while Grant harassed Lee’s army.
Grant eventually cornered Lee at Petersburg

3. Sherman’s March to the Sea
Destroyed 50 mile wide path through state of Georgia
Killed livestock, destroyed farms, burned crops
Union Bow-tie:
Sherman twisted up railroads so southerners couldn’t send materials to Confederate army.
Destroyed city of Atlanta = Lincoln’s re-election.

4. Lee Surrenders:
Appomattox Courthouse: where Lee surrenders on April 9, officially ending the Civil War.

5. Terms of Surrender Confederate soldiers take oath of loyalty to U.S.
Lincoln granted all of them amnesty
committed treason.
Officers keep their horses and weapons
Union soldiers ordered to remain silent as southerners turned in weapons.
Symbolic of unity

6. Lincoln’s Assassination
John Wilkes Boothe: first man in American history to assassinate an American president.
Watching a play at Ford’s Theater.
Part of a larger plot to throw gov’t into chaos and save the south.