Aaron Sheehan-Dean

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American History Hit · What Made America? Victory in the Civil War · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

Gettysburg is one focal point for those.

Of course, the end of the war itself, the kind of Lincoln's last moments offer another opportunity to kind of dig in on this.

So Appomattox, which I would I think we probably now call the first surrender because there are then there's there's another surrender in North Carolina.

And depending on how you date it, there are later ones.

But that happens informally on April 9th, 1865 and formally on April 12th.

1865, so exactly four years to the day, and it creates an almost eerie kind of marking of the duration of that war, that that's the official surrender on April 12th.

Lincoln is assassinated on April 14th, and there is certainly widespread expectation among people in the North that Lee's surrender

as the head of the Army of Northern Virginia and the most powerful force and the one closest to Washington that Lee's surrender on the 9th and then again formally on the 12th marked the end of the war.

There is still actually a major army under the control of Joseph Johnston in North Carolina that Sherman is maneuvering into position against.

That surrender happens on April 22nd.

And there's some controversy because Sherman extended more generous terms and those were pulled back.

But typically we date this around Lee's surrender and then Lincoln's assassination two days later on Good Friday of April 1865.

I mean, his army is worn out.

And so here I would say, you know, what we have to credit is really the logistical, the strategy of logistical devastation that Grant and Sherman have put into operation.

And Grant had managed to maneuver Lee into the trenches of Petersburg.

And at that point, it's really, and that happens in 1864, sort of late summer into the September.

And at that point, in fact, it's a kind of waiting game.

And the first, the question is whether Lincoln will be reelected and he is, and then Sherman captures Atlanta and then Phil Sheridan defeats Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley and Mobile Bay, the last deep water port in the Confederacy is captured in late August.

So there's a whole constellation of military victories.

that limit the capacity of the Confederates to continue fighting.

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