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in spring of 1864, Union general and chief U.S. Grant launched a multi-pronged grand offensive aimed at destroying Confederate armed forces in Virginia.
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Sherman’s Atlanta campaign began in early May 1864. there were confederat soldiers spreat out throughout the outskirts of town. September 1, Confederate forces under John Hood pulled out of Atlanta and the city, the Confederate strength made them surrendered the next day. Sherman’s men continued to defend it through mid-November.
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It happened on the day of June 15 - 18, 1864. Meade’s Army of the Potomac crossed the James River on transports and a 2,200-foot long pontoon bridge at Windmill Point. Lee rushed reinforcements to Petersburg from the Army of Northern Virginia.
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After perceiving that the rich Georgia farmland had enjoyed a good harvest, Sherman decided that he could forget his vulnerable supply-line and live off the land. attacking the infrastructure that supported the Confederate armies in the field.
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when Abe Lincoln was assasinated the US selected Andrew Jackson to be the new president of the USA. Andrew Jackson was named the 17th president
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For more than a week Lee had tried to outrun Grant to the west of Richmond and Petersburg in Virginia. After a ten-month siege of the two cities, the Union forces broke through the defenses and forced Lee to retreat.
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April 14, 1865, the actor John Wilkes Booth went in the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.
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on April 26, 1865, Union General William T. Sherman was restlessly pursuing Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston. When news of Lee’s surrender to Grant reached Johnston on April 14th, he sent a message to Sherman asking for a meeting to discuss terms of his army’s surrender.
