Bringing the War to an end

1. Bringing the War to an end The Civil War (1861-1865)

2. Election of 1864 Abraham Lincoln • Argued that the war must be won • The slaves freed • The Union Preserved George McClellan • Argued the war had gone on long enough • South should be allowed to seceded in order to save American Lives • Means continued slavery

3. Election of 1864 • Lincoln Wins the election • March 4th, 1865 • Second Inaugural Address

4. Sherman’s march… The Confederates could no longer keep up. Total War: Systematic destruction of an entire land- not just an army

5. End of War April 8th, 1865 • Lee finds himself surrounded by Union Soldiers on all fronts • Realization the Southern cause was hopeless • Lee would have to surrender because… • Running out of men & supplies • Union captured Richmond

6. Appomattox Court House Appomattox Court House - April 9th, 1865 – Louis Guillaume 1867 National Historic Park US Dept. Of Interior Almost four years after the fall of Fort Sumter, the Civil War came to an end. Lee surrenders to Grant on April 9, 1865

7. Lee surrenders • All Confederate troops forced to take an oath of loyalty to U.S. • Issue of States’ Rights now “solved”

8. outcomes • Both North & South experienced Major Victories & Defeats • Homes & planation's were burned down in the south • Fields left unattended • South in ruins

9. Over 620,000 military deaths50,000 amputees returned home

10. Effects • Single unified country • Abolition of slavery • U.S. now an industrial nation • Increased power of the Gov’t • South was economically & physically devastated…. • Thus, Reconstruction

11. Lincoln is Assassinated!!! • Booth believed Lincoln was waging war on Southern Rights