Beginning of the Postwar Era Grant Takes Command After Grant is given control in 1864 he vowed to end the war within a year 3 Major offensives Grant started in the north with 118000 men few months later half of these were casualties ID: 639844
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Assassination and The End of the War
Beginning of the Postwar EraSlide2
Grant Takes Command
After Grant is given control in 1864, he vowed to end the war within a year3 Major offensives
Grant- started in the north with 118,000 men- few months later half of these were casualties- nicknamed the “Butcher” by Democrats in the northOnly successful because southern troops couldn’t be replacedSheridan- focused on destruction of Virginia’s Shenandoah ValleySherman- March to the seaSlide3
Peace
Grant successfully cut off Lee’s supply lines and won the siege of PetersburgLee tried to escape but Grant caught up with him
and Lee was forced to surrender to “overwhelming arms and resources” on April 12, 1865Slide4
The President has been shot
April 14th, 1865- Good Friday, President Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theater
Lincoln had only 1 body guard who had wandered away to watch the play and get a drinkAfter Booth shot Lincoln, he called out ‘Sic Semper Tyrannus’- ‘thus always to Tyrants’, the motto of the state of VirginiaBroke his leg in his escape, was eventually caught and killed 2 weeks laterLincoln lingered for 9 hours, dying at 7:22 am on April 15thSecretary of War Stanton- “Now he belongs to the ages”