Caroline Janney
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
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The Army of the Potomac has as many as 100,000 men.
These are cities.
Wherever the Army of the Potomac goes in the south, it is the second largest city in the south, second only to New Orleans.
Throughout the spring of 1864, in what will become known as the Overland Campaign, Grant is going to attack, and he's going to keep attacking for six weeks.
The casualties are going to be like a first bull run, first Manassas, every single day for six weeks.
The misconception is that it was an all-out total war, that he was burning homes, that women were raped and pillaged, that it was just an absolute path of destruction.
The Sherman's army really lays a heavy hand in South Carolina.
They believe that South Carolinians started the war.
They're the first to secede.
They're the ones who fire on Fort Sumter.
But as soon as they turn their march and start heading into North Carolina, which happens in 1865, they pull back and they are not nearly as destructive because they don't see North Carolinians as culpable and as responsible as they had South Carolinians.
Lincoln is so convinced that he is not going to win this election that he writes a memo, becomes known as the blind memo, that he says, in the event that we lose this election, we need to do everything possible to make sure that we end this war before the inauguration of the new president, because after that, it's not going to happen.
After Lincoln's election, things start to change.
The winter of 64, 65, it is pretty clear that the United States has a stranglehold.
Now that we have a president who's going to continue to pursue the war and not allow for peace and desertions within the Confederate Army reach a high point in February of 1865.
Grant, who is with the Union Army, is tightening his circle every day and in early April plans to cut off that last railroad.
And at this point, Lee tries to fight his way out, but realizes that he can't and he's going to have to abandon both Petersburg and the capital city of Richmond.
And so on the night of April 2nd, he will send word that they're going to have to evacuate.
His plan is if he can meet up with Joe Johnston, then maybe they will have a chance of facing off against the respective Union armies.
And so he's heading west.
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