6. total war (n.): an unrestricted warfare in which one or more sides are willing to sacrifice both lives and resources in order to win

10. The defeat of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army at the Battle of Bentonville in March, and its surrender in April, represented the loss of the final major army of the Confederacy. Johnston told Jackson: “ Our people are tired of the war, feel themselves whipped, and will not fight. Our country is overrun, its military resources greatly diminished, while the enemy's military power and resources were never greater... My small force is melting away like snow before the sun.”

19. Fact 1By the time Sherman started his campaign in the South, there were already more than half of a million men dead because of the Civil War Fact 2Approximately half of Atlanta, GA was completely destroyed, roughly the same amount of Chambersburg, Pennsylv. that had been burned by Confederates the previous July. Fact 3Items destroyed during Sherman’s march include: - Railroad tracks and depots - Bridges - Government buildings - Machine shops - Thousands of bales of cotton - Cotton fields - Metal-works Factories Fact 4Approx 3800 Confederates were killed trying to defend their home state. Fact 5Sherman did about $100 million in damage to the South…. Close to a billion dollars in today’s money Fact 6Before Sherman even started, the South’s economy was suffering. A loaf of bread cost up to $90 a loaf in today’s money.

23. Lee surrounded

24. Invitation to Surrender

26. Sunday, April 9, 1865Sunday, April 9, 1865

27. Terms of Surrender:Terms of Surrender:

29. The signing…The signing…

30. The actual living room in the McLean home where Grant and Lee met.

31. The signing…The signing…

32. General Robert E. Lee was pardoned by President Lincoln. His home in Arlington Virginia, however, now sat in the middle of a national cemetery, overlooking the graves of thousands of soldiers. Lee and his family instead moved to Lexington, Virginia, where he became the president of Washington College. He died 15 years later of heart failure. Pres. Jefferson Davis was captured by Union forces in Georgia and was charged with treason. He was imprisoned at Fort Monroe in Virginia for two years, before being released on bail. Went to Europe for several months, came back and lived a life in Mississippi. Died 24 years after the Civil War ended. General Ulysses S. Grant was honored as the hero of the Union and is eventually elected as President of the United States.

33. Sunday, April 11, 1865Sunday, April 11, 1865

35. The AssassinationThe Assassination

49. Conditions of the SouthConditions of the South By 1865By 1865

50. Conditions of the SouthConditions of the South By 1865By 1865

51. The South by 1865 Economic Society Geographic Technology Politics __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________

52. A. Lincoln Gen’l Beauregard Fort Sumter South Carolina siege Election Mary Lincoln Seceded slavery state rebelious battle Southern