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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(1820-1891)

• 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 Democrats or “copperheads”

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’s Comeback•Lincoln has the Abolitionists and Free-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

•Abraham Lincoln

•George McClellan

Candidates: Popular Vote: Electoral Vote:

•2,213,665 votes

•1,805,237 votes

•212 votes

•21votes

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

•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

The South’s Last Stand

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 March

•Lincoln’s re-election

•Southern desperation

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