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Name: Mr. Perkins
Date: May 1, 2017
Topic: Appomattox to Lincoln Assassination
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Appomattox Campaign
Union - General Grant – 63,000 Union Troops
April 3-9, 1865
Confederates – General Lee – 26,000 Confederate Troops
Virginia
Series of small battles leading up to General Lee’s surrender
After Petersburg, Lee planned to go south and meet Gen. Johnston’s Army
The combined Confederate Army could fight Grant’s army
Grant was in pursuit, trying to surround Lee’s Army, forcing surrender
April 4- Amelia Courthouse –Confederates needed food- citizens didn’t help
April 5- went south, saw Union Cavalry, changed directions moving west
April 6- Battle of Sailor’s Creek- Lee trying to outrun Grant – 3 battles
Many confederates captured, including Generals
Battle of High Bridge- Confederates wanted to cross bridge and set it on fire
Union tried to stop them. Confederates held, crossed, and burned it
April 7- Confederates got rations from trains and began preparing meals - starving
The bridge did not burn all the way. Some Union crossed…
Battle of Cumberland Church- Lee’s men in fishhook line. Fought until dark.
Confederates held off Union.
Lee receives surrender letter from Grant. Lee replies asking what terms would be?
April 8- Battle of Appomattox Station – Grant offers to meet Lee to discuss terms
General George Custer’s Union cavalry fought Confederate artillery unit, defeated
them, and burned the trains. Lee has no supplies.
Lee surrenders to Grant
Lee surrenders his army to U.S. Grant on the morning of April 9.
April 9, 1865
Surrender happens in the parlor of Wilmer McLean’s home at 1:00pm.
Appomattox Courthouse, VA
The Civil War ends.
All officers and men were pardoned, kept their horses and private property, officers
kept their side arms, and Lee’s starving men were given Union rations.
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Lincoln Assassination
Abraham Lincoln attended the play “Our American Cousin” with Mary Todd Lincoln
April 14-15, 1865
The conspirators planned to kill Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and
Ford’s Theatre
Secretary of State William Seward, to throw the government into disarray.
Washington, D.C.
The Lincolns were late to the play and sat in the Presidential Box with Henry
Rathbone and his fiancé Clara Harris.
Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at 10:15 p.m. with a .44 caliber
single-shot derringer pistol.
Booth leapt from the box to the stage, breaking his leg, but was able to escape.
Lincoln was carried to a boardinghouse across the street.
He died at 7:22 am the following morning, April 15, 1865. He was 56 years old.
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