These were challenges of which President Abraham Lincoln was well aware. But what would be the long-term meaning of victory in the face of the abolition of slavery and the nature of future government in the Southern states? Reconstruction was marked by efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation, to readmit the Confederate states into the Union, to help those states in particular to rebuild in the face of the war’s near-total destruction of certain areas, to facilitate the re-enfranchisement of white voters in the eleven secessionist states, to determine and guarantee the rights of the approximately four million freed slaves in the South, and to somehow try to help ease human suffering. It lasted from 1865 to 1877 and has been called “one long referendum on the meaning and memory of the verdict reached at Appomattox.” That is to say, the Union had won the war on the battlefield. The period following the Civil War (1861–65) is known in U.S.
Though skirmishes would continue for some weeks, the war was essentially over.
Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia-the rebellion more “worn out rather than suppressed,” as Union artillery colonel Charles Wainwright put it. Lee, commander of the army of Northern Virginia, surrendered his forces to Union general Ulysses S. In early April, the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, fell to Union forces.
Sherman (of “war is hell” fame) completed his infamous and devastating march to the sea in Georgia. Skinner is a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University.īy late 1864, the physical fighting of the American Civil War was moving toward a final resolution.
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