Collapse of the Confederacy from 1864-65

HIST 4055 (Final Article / Question 2) June 25, 2010 Collapse of the Union from 1864 to 1865 The collapse of the Union in 1865 was caused by various reasons. These problems basically include military and terrible political and economic situations. General Ulysses S. Grant from the West shifted his "aggressive" new war strategy, and William T. Sherman's "March to the sea" of the alliance, and eventually moved to the eastern state of Atlanta, Georgia Occupied. Enable the Union to strengthen the control of their Anaconda plan.

By 1864, the long-term advantage of the federal government in geographical, human resources, industry, finance, political organization, and transportation was not stopped. Grant made a series of bloody battle with Lee of Virginia State in the summer of 1864. Lee's defensive strategy brought about an increase in the number of casualties of the Grant army but Lee could not replace his casualties and was forced to retreat into the trenches around him and strategically took the whole strategy out I lost. At the same time in the capital, Richmond, Virginia, in the western, William Tecumseh Sherman occupied Atlanta in 1864. His "March to the sea" destroyed the 100-mile Georgian zone with almost no alliance resistance. In 1865, after the Lie surrendered Grant in the Court of Apo-Matox, the federal government fell.

In the fall of 1864, the alliance's Ulysses S. Grant alliance won and destroyed most of the federal capital of Richmond and Petersburg. By the beginning of 1865, the fate of war was very obvious On April 2, Lee was forced to give up Richmond This is a fact. A week later, he reluctantly frustrated Li surrendered to Grant at a private residence in Appomattox, Virginia. Lee's complex legacy has become part of the cultural war that hit the country more than a century later. Some people tried to remove the statue of the Confederates leaders from the public eye, but thought that others were to erase history. Charlottesville City Council in Virginia State voted to remove Lee statue from the park, in 2017 Charlottesville became a place of protest action and anti-protest action. In August, a myriad of demonstrators collided, one died and nineteen people were injured.

In January 1864, under the direction of the Commonwealth of the Commonwealth of Mississippi, he was led by the Commonwealth of the State of Mississippi, and under the talented guidance, the invasion of East Texas was blocked in the spring of 1864 . But on March 12, 1864, General Grant was appointed Supreme Commander of Allied Army and did not include cross-sectoral initiatives in the state of Mississippi. The battlefield was completely removed from the southwest, and the two centralized federal forces began to move toward capturing the purpose of Richmond and Atlanta. In this case, General McLuder was transferred to Arkansas General Smith, J. Walker is appointed Texas Commander. The war is now in its final stage. In 1 year, Grant's campaign succeeded and on 9 April 1865 the Federal Commander R. E. Lee surrendered to Appomattox.