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Name: Mr. Perkins Date: May 1, 2017 Topic: Appomattox to Lincoln Assassination Hour: Main Ideas/Central Questions Notes 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. Main Ideas/Central Questions Notes 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. Summary:
