General Grant appointed Commander-in-Chief of all Union Armies

The Battle of Drewry’s Bluff

The Battle of Cold Harbor

Lincoln is re-nominated for President

General Grant bottles General Lee in Petersburg and begins siege

POW Camps, like Andersonville Prison, become death traps

Lincoln wins a second term

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s army begins their “March to the Sea”

General Lee flees Petersburg. Most of his  ragged soldiers have deserted. Petersburg and Richmond fall.

General Grant forces General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House. Other CSA armies follow marking the end of the war.

President Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

Union soldiers begin to return home after the surrender. By November 4/5th (801,000) have returned home.

The 13th Amendment is proposed and ratified officially abolishing slavery