Election of 1864
- Andrew Johnson was chosen as Lincoln’s running mate
- Lincoln tries to push a message of bringing the country together and ending slavery
- Opponent is George McCullen
- Platform rejected emancipation and only wanted to oppose Lincoln
- Sherman Captures Atlanta, confederates abandon the city
- Lincoln wins the election, 13th Amendment is passed to end slavery, then sent to the states for ratification
Sherman’s March to the Sea
- Sherman marches to Savanna destroying everything useful and convinces the people he doesnt want to keep fighting
- Burns a swath from Georgia to the sea
- Plantations, railroads, everything burned
- Sherman reaches Savannah and finds it too beautiful to burn
- Moved north, burns capitol at Columbia, SC
- continued north and reached NC border where he stopped burning
- Spreads message that secessionists will be punished
End of the Confederacy
- Grant took control of the rail lines leading into Petersburg
- Cuts off Lee from supplies into Richmond
- Forces Lee to abandon the city and flee west
- Lincoln visits Richmond and Grant pursues Lee
- On April 9, Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House
- Grant offers generous terms to Lee.
- All soldiers can return home
- Drop your guns and go home
- Lee acceps
- Confederate government dissolved, Jefferson David was captured by Union troops on may 10