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Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee at
the Surrender Table at Appomattox
Courthouse
Challenge Questions
President
Lincoln would go to Richmond to see the captured capitol of
the Confederacy. He would return to Washington to
find out of the end of the war. He would give his
final speech from the White House balcony. Many
things happened shortly after the war ended.
A brief
summary of the war's conclusion can be read at this site.
Click
here.
Go to the
Civil War Timeline and answer the questions:
1.
Several events took place to help Union forces win the war.
One started with a mistake by U.S. Grant in which he lost
thousands of soldiers in 20 minutes, but resulted in the
last battle that Lee could win. Go to the Timeline,
for June 1-3, 1864, and describe what happened to the 7,000
men killed.
2. What
happened during July of 1864. The
Timeline describes several events in the war.
List them.
3. Looking for
Sept., 1864, what great southern city is captured?
Who was the Union General?
4. In Oct.
of 1864, another great battle was won by Union forces.
What valley did it occur, and who was the general
in-charge?
5. Nov. of
1864, was election year for President. Which
candidate won a second term, and who did he defeat?
6. Dec.
of 1864, a large Confederate was destroyed in Tennessee.
Who were the generals of both sides of this important
battle?
7. March 25,
1865, was bad for Confederate forces and it's government.
What city did they lose after the battle of Petersburg?
Who were the generals?
8. April 4, 1865,
President Lincoln and his son take a tour of this southern
city, and the President actually enters an important
building and sits at a desk. Where was the city, and
what desk did the Union President sit?
9. April 9,
1865, Robert E. Lee would surrender to U.S. Grant.
This represented the end of the war. Where did this
surrender occur?
How did
Union soldiers treat the defeated Confederates? Lee
responded to Grant (after reading the gentlemen's agreement
on surrender terms),
"This will have a very
happy effect on my army."
What did
Lee mean, when he said this? Go
here
for answers.
10. April
14, 1865, would have great happenings including the raising
of the stars and stripes at what fort? What
play was running at Ford Theatre, and who would be guests
of the play on the 14th?
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