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UNION LOOKS TO SMASH CSA INDUSTRY

CONFEDERATES DRIVEN BACK TO CHATTANOOGA

UNION DEFEATED AT CHICKAMAUGA

GRANT TAKES OVER – WINS BATTLES OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN

& MISSIONARY RIDGE

DESTROY LEE’S ARMY!“WHERE EVERY LEE GOES WE WILL GO!”

LOBSTER CLAW

GRANT WILLTAKE RICHMOND& DRIVE SOUTH

SHERMAN WILLTAKE ATLANTA &

DRIVE NORTH

DESTROY LEE’S ARMY!“WHERE EVERY LEE GOES

WE WILL GO!”

NO RETREAT -WEAR DOWN LEE WITH NUMBERS

DEFENSIVE WAR

-DEFEND RICHMOND

-FORTIFICATIONS-ATTRITION

LEE OUTNUMBERED -FORCES GRANT TO FIGHT IN

WOODED AREA - CHAOTIC

GRANT LOSES (HIGH CASUALITIES) BUT DOES NOT RETREAT

GRANT DOES NOT RETREAT-TRIES TO OUTFLANK LEE

LEE - DIGS IN

RELENTLESS FIRE –TERRIBLE CASUALTIES

GRANT FLANKS – LEE DIGS IN

GRANT ASSULTS LEE’S POSITION

HORRIBLE CASUALTIES –GRANT THE BUTCHER!

60,000 IN LESS THAN 1 MONTH!

GRANT FLANKS – LEE DIGS IN

BOTH SIDES DIG TRENCHES

10 MONTH SIEGE

UNION RAILROADS & PORTS

ABOUT SHERMAN

TOTAL WAR! DESTROY EVERYTHINGATTACK CIVILIAN TARGETS

CITY UNDER SIEGECSA HAS MILESOF TRENCHES

RE-ELECTION LOOKS BAD

“COPPERHEADS”ANTI-WAR

END THE WAR

DEMOCRAT

ELECTION DURINGCIVIL WAR?

“WITH MALACE

TOWARD NONE & CHARITY TO ALL”

THE NATION MUST HEAL ITS WOUNDS

PRISONER OF WAR CAMP IN GEORGIA

HORRIBLE CONDITIONS

13,000 DIE IN ONE YEAR

UNION TROOPS OUTRAGED!

SHERMAN DESTROYS EVERYTHING“MAKE THEM SICK OF WAR FOR

GENERATIONS!”

PETERSBURG FALLS – APRIL 1865

CSA GOVERNMENT FLEES

CSA SETS RICHMOND ON FIRE!

LINCOLN VISITS

“FATHER ABRAHAM”

LEE’S ARMY IS DESTROYEDLEE SURRENDERS – APRIL 9, 1865

GRANT & LEE MEET

THE TERMS AND THE MEETING START THE NATION HEALING – THE WAR IS OVER

THE NATION IS CHANGES FOREVER1 MILLION CASUALTIES

COST $5 BILLIONSOUTH PHYSICALLY DESTROYED

BITTERNESS FOR GENERATIONSNORTHERN INDUSTRY

MORE POWERFUL

THE NATION WILL HAVE TO BE REUNITED

END OF SLAVERY – THE UNION IS PRESERVED

ABOUT JOHN WILKES BOOTH

PLOT TO KILL UNION GOVERNMENT

BELIEVED IN SOUTH – DID NOT JOIN ARMY

ATTENDS “OUR AMERICAN COUSIN” AT FORD’S THEATHER

BOOTH SHOTS LINCOLN IN HIS BOX

LINCOLN DIES THE NEXT DAY IN THE PETERSON HOUSE

THE NATION MOURNS