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#1 Lincoln was watching the battlefield. In a best-case scenario, his general in chief, Ulysses S. Grant, would trap Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his army inside Petersburg, forcing their surrender. The four-year-old American Civil War would be over, and the United States would be divided no more.
#2 Lincoln was planning on offering Lee the most lenient surrender terms possible. He knew that the most important thing was to defeat Lee and his army, and he wanted to make sure Grant did that.
#3 Lincoln’s dream was so vivid and painful that when he told his wife and friends about it, the description shocked them beyond words. The dream finally ended as day broke.
#4 The standoff began last June, when Grant abruptly abandoned the battlefield at Cold Harbor and wheeled toward Petersburg. In what would go down as one of history’s greatest acts of stealth and logistics, Grant withdrew 115,000 men from their breastworks under cover of darkness and marched them south, crossed the James River without a single loss of life, and then pressed due west to Petersburg.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	21 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669356967
Langue	English
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#1

Lincoln was watching the battlefield. In a best-case scenario, his general in chief, Ulysses S. Grant, would trap Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his army inside Petersburg, forcing their surrender. The four-year-old American Civil War would be over, and the United States would be divided no more.

#2

Lincoln was planning on offering Lee the most lenient surrender terms possible. He knew that the most important thing was to defeat Lee and his army, and he wanted to make sure Grant did that.

#3

Lincoln’s dream was so vivid and painful that when he told his wife and friends about it, the description shocked them beyond words. The dream finally ended as day broke.

#4

The standoff began last June, when Grant abruptly abandoned the battlefield at Cold Harbor and wheeled toward Petersburg. In what would go down as one of history’s greatest acts of stealth and logistics, Grant withdrew 115,000 men from their breastworks under cover of darkness and marched them south, crossed the James River without a single loss of life, and then pressed due west to Petersburg.

#5

The stalemate at Petersburg is not a proper siege, even though the press often calls it that. Grant has Lee pinned down on three sides, but he has not surrounded his entire force. The Appomattox River flows through the heart of Petersburg, and the Confederates control all land north of it.

#6

On April 1, Grant removes the second option of escaping Petersburg: he orders another attack along twelve miles of Confederate line. The Union attack is divided into two waves. The first shatters Lee’s right flank, spins around to obliterate A. P. Hill’s Third Corps, and makes a U-turn and marches on Petersburg.

#7

Lee had to escape Petersburg and send orders to his generals to fall back to the city’s innermost defenses. If any of those three events did not take place, he would be forced to surrender.

#8

Grant had ordered his army to retreat from Petersburg eight hours ago, and the Confederate soldiers were still marching towards the Appomattox River. Grant allowed them to unpack their rail cars and take food, then sent them on their way.

#9

Grant was a dark-haired, sloppy man who was completely opposite of Lee. He had a savant’s aptitude for warfare, and he was capable of little else. When the Civil War began, he was a washed-up, barely employed West Point graduate.

#10

Grant was always anxious about the future of the nation, but he was happy when Lincoln came to visit him in Petersburg. He had never had a more carefree moment in his life.

#11

Lincoln and Grant had become close during the war, and when Lincoln received the news that Richmond had fallen, he cried out, Thank God that I have lived to see this. It seems to me that I have been dreaming a horrid dream for four years, and now the nightmare is gone.

#12

John Wilkes Booth has traveled to Rhode Island, where he plans to kidnap Lincoln and take him to the southern states to be safe from the northern troops. He has gathered a gang of people who will help him with his plan.

#13

Lucy’s engagement to Booth was not a secret anymore, and they were seen together at the second inaugural. Their relationship had begun to strain because Booth had begun to plot against the president.

#14

After checking into the hotel, Booth and Lucy walk the waterfront all morning. They stop and argue about the Confederacy and Lincoln, and they never make love again. They catch the evening train back to Boston.

#15

The Confederate army was in disarray. There was no longer any military discipline, and the men were tired and hungry. They were also barefoot, having worn out their leather boots and laces from the rains and mud of winter.

#16

The retreat from Richmond was extremely difficult for the soldiers, and many of them were not even soldiers. They were sailors who had burned their ships rather than let them fall into Union hands. The retreat spoke of failure, and yet when messengers arrived saying that the Petersburg bridges had been blown by his sappers, Lee was optimistic.

#17

Lee had long struggled with rheumatism, and it flared up again during the campaign. He knew that any sign of personal weakness would be noticed by his men. He ordered the food unloaded and distributed in an organized fashion, despite the lack of food.

#18

When Lincoln arrived in Richmond, the first thing he saw was the whiskey being poured into the streets. The citizens of Richmond had completely destroyed the one thing that could make the Union lose control and vent their rage on the populace: whiskey.

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