Victory of Vicksburg

• Confederacy split into 2 (1863, July 4)

Victory at Gettysburg (PA)

• 4 July 1863

• Bloodiest battle on American soil, Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address after.

The 13th Amendment (~1865)

• Essentially abolished slavery

• Problem: The Southern states are not want to come back

  • However. If the Union wins the war, will the Southern states have a choice?

• NOT AN EASY 1-2 PUNCH !!

• Already an opposed bill by the time the war was ending

• Lincoln was a popular president and was inaugurated for a second term

Lincoln’s wish

• A peaceful nation, both sides together again

• No punishment towards southern states (?)

  • Welcome them back, because these states are our states, the UNITED STATES

Gettysburg Address (1863) BEFORE 13TH AMENDMENT

• Delivered by President Lincoln

  • On the Battlefield

• Prime Message

  • That we can endure and come back as a Union, No matter what happens, we will always be one nation.

• Lincoln will do anything that he needs from a political standpoint and not a moral one.

  • You cant identify a “side” that he’s on because he wants to hold as much political power as he can.

  • He’s always trying to stay neutral, and to apply to both sides, EVEN if in the middle of a war.

War is over (April 9th, 1869)

• Lincoln doesn't live a week after the war ends

  • Killed by John Wilkes Booth

  • Significance: Shows that SECTIONALISM IS NOT DEAD.

• What about the 13th Amendment?

  • Lincoln was confident that the bill would be ratified, but the confederate peace delegation refused to pass it.

• Siege at Petersburg (25 March 1865)

  • The Union wins the war

• Robert E. Lee (Confederate) surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appottomax Court House (9 April 1865)

• IN ALL, THE UNION WON THE WAR