As the civil war drag on, casualties mounted. Northerners and southerners nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals and many took wounded soldiers into their homes. So many soldiers died from lack of immediate medical care that Clara Barton, a volunteer nurse, treated the wounded right ion the battle field.
In an effort to win the war, Lee invaded the north in 1863 but his advanced ended at the Battle of Gettysburg and he was forced to retreat.
Meanwhile, Grant captured Vicksburg and union forces quickly controlled the entire Mississippi river.
Given command of all union forces in 1864, Grant set out to end the war. He invaded Virginia, clashed over and over again with Lee and finally captured Richmond in 1865.
Meanwhile, union general William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta then March through Georgia and north and South Carolina destroying southerners resources and their will to fight.
On April 9th 1865, after the fall of Richmond, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House ending the civil war.
President Lincoln hope to create a just and lasting peace but he never got the chance. On April 14th 1865, he was shot by an assassin and died the next morning.
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