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Lincoln was sworn in....

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...again as President in 1865. The speech he gave at the inauguration was focused on the evils of slavery ("A violation of equality and liberty"). He also said that the country should come together by "binding up its wounds".

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At Petersburg outside Richmond, Grant had...

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...trapped Lee's army in a siege for nine months!! Grant had taken many casualties trying to take the many trenches and forts while Lee's army was in desperate shape. Grant came up with a plan for the Union soldiers to dig a tunnel under Confederate trenches, fill the tunnel with gunpowder, and blow a hole in the South's defenses. Then specially trained African Americans would race in and overwhelm the confederates. Ambrose Burnside was in charge of this but at the last moment, he switched out the special black troops with untrained white troops that did not know what they had to do. It ended as many Union casualties and a failure for Grant.

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Grant used a huge number of fresh Union troops to attack Petersburg and he..

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...captured or killed MOST of Lee's army. Lee and parts of his army managed to escape to the west towards Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. Part of Grant's Union army marched into the Confederate capital of Richmond. Other troops FOLLOWED LEE TO APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE.