1. Civil War: End of War

2. Union’s Plan to End the Warx
Meade
Grant was put in charge of the Union army in the east after Vicksburg fell.
Plan= Capture Richmond
Grant

3. Union’s Plan to End the War
William Tecumseh Sherman was given Union command in the West
Plan= March across the deep South
Practice Total War
destroying all civilian and economic resources to weaken the enemy
Sherman

4. Leading up to the Election of 1864

5. Grant could not capture Richmond
Sherman could not capture Atlanta, Georgia
North moral drops
Lincoln re-election chances did not look good

6. Sherman’s March Union needed to break the South’s will to fight
Burned Atlanta, GA- Nov. 1864
TOTAL WAR
Sherman

7. TOTAL WAR Sherman’s March
Marched across Georgia burning cities and crops
Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
Marched through North and South Carolina tearing up railroad tracks and killing livestock
Sherman
TOTAL WAR

8. Lincoln wins re-election

9. “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to achieve and cherish a lasting peace among ourselves and with the world. to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with the world...”
- Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

10. Richmond Falls April 2, 1865- Grant captures Petersburg, VA
Confederate leaders evacuate Richmond and burn the city.
April 4, Union now controls Richmond

11. Appomattox Courthouse
April 9, War ends
Lee surrendered to Grant at a home in Appomattox Courthouse, VA
Union won the war!!!

12. APPOMATTOX COURT-HOUSE, VA. April 9, 1865
General R. E. LEE:
In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th instant, I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged; and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands. The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by U. S. authority so long as they observe their paroles and the laws in force where they may reside.
U.S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General
Surrender Terms at Appomattox, 1865

13. Appomattox Courthouse
Surrender Terms:
Confederates could keep their horses
Weapons would be turned over, but officers could keep their sidearm's
Confederates could go home
Grant even instructed his men not to celebrate and gave food to Lee’s men

14. Effects of War Slaves were freed $$ Billions spent $$ Union was saved
South was destroyed
Lives lost (620,000)