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Jackie Brown
Paul Ingersoll
Emily Onel
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Abraham Lincoln's Second
Inaugural Address
•Sherman’s March
•Total War Tactics
•The Election of 1864
•Growing Southern Depression
•Appomattox and Conclusion of the Civil War
Timeline
General William T. Sherman(18201891)
• Born February 8, 1820
• Participated in the Mexican American War
• Is appointed a Colonel in May 14, 1861
• Takes Atlanta on July 22, 1864
• Sherman takes his March November 15, 1864
• Died on February 14, 1891
General Sherman Takes Atlanta
•Atlanta is taken on July 22, 1864
•Lincoln is praised for turning the war in Northern
favor
•North citizens’ attitudes toward Lincoln improves
greatly
•General Sherman is in a ideal tactical position
Sherman’s March to The Sea
•Sherman’s March starts on November 15,
1864
•Causing chaos and destruction,
hurting
southern morale
•Battle at Savannah December 21, 1864
• Sherman's March ends on December 21,
1864
General Sherman’s March Map
Total War
•Allows General Sherman
to March to Savannah
•Prevents Confederate troops from stopping
Sherman’s armies
•Destroys Southern railroad tracks
•Disposes of Southern cotton
•Destruction of over 100 millions dollars
•Cripples Southern Economy
•Southern demoralization
•General Sherman is ridiculed for his use of
Total War
Effects of General Sherman’s
March
•Gains optimal strategic positioning
•Causes irrevocable damage to Southern
economy
•Demoralizes the South
•Gives the North new hope
•Helps Lincoln win the election of 1864
Sherman’s March and the
Election of 1864
•Gives Northerns new trust in Lincoln
•Shows Northerns the war can be won
•Shows the end of the war is coming
George B. McClellan
(1826-1885)
•Former Governor of New Jersey
•General during the Civil War
•Ran on the Democratic platform
•Did not believe in slavery and believed in the
Union
•War Democrats and Peace Democrats
•McClellan represented the head of the Peace
Election of 1864 Before
Sherman’s Victory in Atlanta
•Robert Lee was taking the war into his own hands
•Looked as though McClellan would win
•The North was thinking about discontinuing the war
•Northern morale was extremely low
•Lincoln
has the Abolitionists
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Comeback
Soilers on his side
•Lincoln also had the soldiers’ voting for
him
•Many peoples’ faith was restored in
Lincoln
•Northerns want to continue the war
•Lincoln’s success foreshadow future
victory
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
Address
•Trying to end the war not avoid it
•Referring to the Bible to try to unify the
nation
•Makes it clear that Slavery will end no
matter the cost
•Gives the South a vision of a united
nation
Lincoln’s Meaning
•“to do all which may achieve and cherish a just,
and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with
all nations”
•Still wants to unify the United States
•Wants to bring the South back into the nation
•Wants to have “lasting peace, among
ourselves”
The Election of 1864 Results
Candidates:
•Abraham
Popular Vote:
Electoral Vote:
Lincoln
•2,213,665 votes
•212 votes
•George
•1,805,237 votes
•21votes
McClellan
The Election of 1864
Percentages
The Election of 1864 Territories
Andrew Johnson
•A racist Southern Democrat as opposed to the
devoted Republican, Hannibal Hamlin
•Andrew Johnson stays in office even after many
Southern congressmen leave
•Lincoln shifts his views towards the end of the
war and reconstruction
•Andrew Johnson is charged with the task of
reconstruction
Causes of Southern Depression
•General Sherman’s victory at Atlanta
•General Sherman’s March
•The use of
Total War Tactics
•Lincoln’s success in the Election of 1864
•Robert E. Lee’s retreat back into
Southern territory
The Inevitability of the War’s End
•Southerners start to realize the war is soon to
end
•Southern armies are retreating and
surrendering
•Important Southern towns are being taken
•Southern economy is being ruined
•Southern generals loose hope and the will to
fight
In Appomattox
•Robert E. Lee chased to Appomattox by Ulysses S.
Grant
•Lee arrives in Appomattox County on April 8th, 1865
•Lee and his men try to escape using the Southern
Side Railroad
•Lee’s forces are cut off by the armies of Ulysses S.
Grant
The South’s Last Stand
•Lee’s instructs his Soldiers to wait and make their
last stand
•Lee at first ambushed the Northern Calvary and
forces retreat
•Union infantry reinforcements come and circle
Lee’s armies
•Confederates fall back and surrender shortly after
Appomattox Battlefield
Southern Surrender
•On the morning of April 9th the final battle is fought
•In the afternoon of April 9th Robert E. Lee
surrenders
•The surrender at Appomattox signals the war’s end
•By the end of Summer all Southern generals
surrender
Causes of the Surrender at
Appomattox and Northern Victory
•Sherman’s victory at Atalanta
•Sherman’s March
•The superior position gained from Sherman’s Marc
•Lincoln’s re-election
•Southern desperation
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