The longer it remained seceded, the more secession would be recognized as a fait accompli in the North and become the new status quo, leading to de facto and eventually formal recognition internationally. The North was able to bring its industry and its manpower to bear in such a way that eventually, through sheer numerical and material advantage, it gained and maintained the upper hand
It was a grim preview of the way in which wars would commonly be fought in the twentieth century.By April 1865, it was impossible for the South to put off the inevitable. The Confederate victory greatly enhanced Southern confidence and morale, and indicated that the war would not be as quick and easy as previously imagined.While things were looking grim for the Union forces in Virginia, further west Union armies under the overall command of Gen
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9, his famous farewell address to the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 10, 1865, when he insisted that the army had been "compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources." While this is "a comforting conclusion and it is not without a substantial basis of fact," according to the historian Bell Irvin Wiley, it also understates the Union's military accomplishment, which involved actively subduing a vast and populous country. Still, in his 1981 essay collection, Reflections on the Civil War, the historian Bruce Catton provocatively suggested that, in the end, "the legend of the lost cause has served the entire country very well." The things that were done during the Civil War have not been forgotten, of course, but we now see them through a veil
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Jeff Thompson surrendered the remnants of his famous brigade at Chalk Bluff, Arkansas under the same terms as Lieutenant General Ulysses Grant offered to General Robert E. Sultana, overcrowded and with defective boilers, was north of Memphis, Tennessee near Old Hen and Chickens Islands in the darkness of the early morning when a boiler exploded, hurling soldiers and wreckage high into the air
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Appomattox: How did Ulysses S. Grant become an embarrassment of history and Robert E. Lee a role model?
Maybe, if full racial equality is in our future, Grant will rise higher as the man who helped move the country a step toward its destination, while Lee declines to the background of history. Exhausted by Reconstruction and the battles over black rights, white Northerners were eager to put the past behind them and reunite with their Southern cousins
Centerpiece of the battlefield is a state park surrounding the Hillsman House where Federal forces gathered to attack the Confederates across the creek. Much is offered including a visitor center in the old courthouse, a book store and the reconstructed McLean House, where Lee and Grant met April 9, 1865
But, one of Alabama's most crucial roles in the war was creating iron for weapons.At Tannehill State Park, some of blast furnaces used to make iron during the Civil War remain. Reenactors and park rangers were on hand there Thursday to share stories from the conflict that tore the nation apart and eventually brought it back together
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During the first two years of the war, Southern troops won numerous victories but saw their fortunes turn after losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in 1863. Following the war, three amendments were added to the Constitution which abolished slavery (13th), extended legal protection regardless of race (14th), and abolished all racial restrictions on voting (15th)
The Surrender - Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia allowed the Federal Government to redistribute forces and bring increased pressure to bear in other parts of the south resulting in the surrender of the remaining field armies of the Confederacy over the next few months. Sherman near Durham, North Carolina (now Bennett Place State Historical Park); on May 4th General Richard Taylor, the son of 12th President of the United States, Zachary Taylor, surrendered at Citronelle, Alabama; on June 2nd General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered the Confederate Department of the Trans Mississippi to Major General Canby; and on June 23rd General Stand Watie surrendered Confederate Cherokee Indian forces in Oklahoma
General Horace Porter described the scene: "We entered, and found General Grant sitting at a marble-topped table in the center of the room, and Lee sitting beside a small oval table near the front window, in the corner opposite to the door by which we entered, and facing General Grant. After a series of notes between the two leaders, they agreed to meet on April 9, 1865, at the house of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Courthouse
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Causes of the Civil War The North and the South had different attitudes toward slavery, free labor (paid) versus slave labor (unpaid) Confederate troops bombarded a Union stronghold, Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, April 12, 1861. Southern leaders thought their power in the House would decline as free states joined Southern states wanted the right to declare any national law illegal
Grant at Appomattox Court House foreshadowed a multitude of real and symbolic compromises that the winners of the war would make with secessionists, slavery supporters, and each other to piece the country back together. "But we'll let you win in the battle of memory and valor and nostalgia." People of good faith can argue over whether these kinds of symbolic concessions (as opposed to the concrete ones, which consigned emancipated slaves to a century of sanctioned depredations) were wise or necessary means to the end of preserving the Union
April 24, 1862 - 17 Union ships under the command of Flag Officer David Farragut move up the Mississippi River then take New Orleans, the South's greatest seaport. Lee, son of a Revolutionary War hero, and a 25 year distinguished veteran of the United States Army and former Superintendent of West Point, is offered command of the Union Army
Robert E. Lee - American Civil War - HISTORY.com
On August 29-30, he defeated General John Pope in the second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), but when he invaded Maryland he was checked on September 17 by Union forces under McClellan at Antietam. Three years later, with the approval of Jefferson Davis, then secretary of war, he transferred as a lieutenant colonel to the newly raised Second Cavalry and served in West Texas
Appomattox and the Ongoing Civil War - The Atlantic
This military Reconstruction Act also disfranchised certain classes of white Southerners, established black male suffrage, and forced majority approval of new state constitutions (which had to include the equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment) for readmission to the Union. Approximately 1.2 million were wounded, including perhaps 30-40,000 northern amputees (there are no equivalent numbers for Southerners) who struggled with life and livelihood well into the late nineteenth century
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