TOTAL WAR AND THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR

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TOTAL WARAND THEEND OF THECIVIL WAR
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Shermans March to the Sea

• Union General Sherman attacked the heart of the
  South.
• He took his army on a march from Tennessee to the
  Georgia Coast.
• He cut a path of destruction 250 miles long
  across the South.

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• Shermans army destroyed everything in its path
  including burning down Atlanta.
• This is called Total War armies attack armies,
  property, and land. destroy anything useful

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Goals of Total War

• One goal was to destroy the Souths ability to
  continue fighting.
• If the South had no factories or railroads left,
  they could not keep supplying their army.
• The other goal was to prove to the people of the
  South that they were beaten and that their armies
  could not protect them.

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Appomattox

• By 1865 it was clear that the South would lose
  the war.
• General Lee surrendered his army to Union General
  Grant at a place called Appomattox Courthouse.
• Terms of surrender soldiers were required to
  turn over their rifles, but officers were allowed
  to keep their pistols. Soldiers were allowed to
  keep horses.
• Why do think Grant allowed them to keep
  horses????

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Appomattox Courthouse
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Lee Surrenders to Grant
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The End is Here

• Lee told his armies and the people of the South
  that they were beaten and that they should stop
  fighting.
• This was the end of the Civil War.
• -- April 9, 1865
• All fighting ended by the summer.