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Chapter 18: Texas & the Civil War
Section 5: The End of the War
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The War Draws to a Close• Union forces move
into South after fall of Vicksburg and Gettysburg
• April 1864: Ulysses Grant takes command of Union army
• Robert E. Lee put on the defensive
Ulysses S. Grant
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The War Draws to a Close
•General William T. Sherman is remembered for his deliberately destructive march through Georgia & the Carolinas.
William T. Sherman
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The War Draws to a Close
• April 9, 1865: Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse,
Virginia
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Battle at Palmito Ranch• May 1865: word of
surrender reaches Texas
• Hundreds of soldiers leave for home
• General E. Kirby Smith urges soldiers to continue war
Edmund Kirby Smith
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Battle at Palmito Ranch
•May 12, 1865: Union troops move inland towards Brownsville
•The last land battle of the war took place in Texas after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.
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Battle at Palmito Ranch
•Confederate & Union forces clash at Palmito Ranch
•Confederate troops win battle taking 100 Union prisoners
•Won the battle, but lost the war
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Consequences of War
•620,000 Americans killed in Civil War
•Deadliest conflict in U.S. history
•90,000 Texans served in the Civil War
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Consequences of War
•At the end of the war, Texas was in a state of political and economic collapse.
–Cotton trade had almost come to a stop
–State government officials fled to Mexico
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Consequences of War•Emancipation Proclamation—decreed that slaves were free in areas rebelling under the United States
Emancipation Proclamation