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Context• 1860 presidential election
o 11 southern slave states secede: the Confederacyo Other 25 states support federal government: the Union
• Conflicts escalate to total civil war• Union quickly captures border states
o Naval blockade
• Land warfare inconclusiveo Confederate beats Union advances towards capital Richmond, Virginia
• Confederate northward advance ended 1863o General Robert E. Lee loses Battle of Gettysburg
Conquest of Virginia• Ulysses S. Grant made commander of Union
forceso After western successes
• Plan:o Total war: destruction of Confederate forces and economic baseo Organized Union armies for attack from all directionso Restructuring of Union army
• Notable Battleso Overland Campaign: Grant battles of attrition against Leeo Siege of Petersburg: Grant destroys Lee’s armyo Union Gen. Sherman captures Atlanta and destroys infrastructure
Confederate Surrender
• Battle of Five Forkso Gen. Grant finishes Lee’s army
• April 9, 1865: Gen. Lee surrendero Other Confederate armies follow suito Marks end of war
• May 9: Official declaration of end of war• June 22: Last shot is fired• June 23: Stand Watie is last general to surrender
Bronnen• John W. Chambers, II, ed. in chief, The Oxford
Companion to American Military History. Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-19-507198-6. P. 849.
• Mark E. Neely Jr.; "Was the Civil War a Total War?" Civil War History, Vol. 50, 2004
• McPherson, Battle Cry• American Civil War: www.wikipedia.org