Civil War 1863-65
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June 1864 -- Battle of Cold Harbor; Lincoln nominated for
second term
Grant loses over 7,000 men in twenty minutes of fighting at Cold Harbor, but Lee's fewer casualties further deplete his forces. Grant commences ten-month offensive attempting to capture Richmond by taking the railroad hub of Petersburg to its south. Lincoln is nominated for re-election at Republican Convention. Tennessee's Andrew Johnson, a Democrat and the only U.S. senator from a seceding state to remain loyal to the Union, is chosen as the candidate for vice-president in an effort to broaden the ticket's appeal to Democratic moderates. The Republicans also change their name to the "National Union" party to emphasize their policy of reconciliation. The Democrats decide to postpone their convention until August to see how the military situation progresses. Lincoln accepts the resignation of Treasury Secretary Chase, remarking that they had come to "a point of mutual embarrassment" in their official relations over Chase's efforts to secure support from the Radical Republicans to reject Lincoln and obtain the 1864 presidential nomination for himself. July 1864 -- Confederates threaten Washington Confederates attempt to divert Union troops away from Lee's army in Virginia by invading Maryland with forces under command of General Jubal Early. Confederate lines advance to within five miles of Washington, D.C., but on July 1 are forced back to Virginia. Lincoln vetoes the Wade-Davis Bill requiring the majority of the electorate in each Confederate state to swear past and future loyalty to the Union before the state could officially be readmitted to the Union, provoking criticism from Radical Republicans as he begins campaign for re-election. August 1864 -- Sherman's Atlanta Campaign; McClellan nominated by Democrats Union General William T. Sherman leaves Chattanooga in attempt to split the South and capture Atlanta. After inflicting heavy destruction on private property in a controversial campaign, Sherman succeeds in capturing and occupying Atlanta in September. The Democratic Party holds its delayed convention, nominating for president former General George McClellan for president on a peace platform that includes a plank declaring the war a failure and calling for an armistice and a peace convention of the states. McClellan accepts the nomination, but repudiates the platform's position on an immediate peace, and indicates that he would support continuance of slavery in the South after the War's end. October 1864 -- Chief Justice Taney dies Chief Justice Roger Taney, author of the Supreme Court's majority opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, dies. Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's former Treasury Secretary who previously had explored a potential candidacy to oppose Lincoln for re-nomination, speaks in behalf of Lincoln's re-election, possibly to improve his prospects to be appointed to fill the vacancy on the Court. November 1864 -- Lincoln Re-Elected Lincoln and Johnson are elected with 55% of the popular vote. The Republican ticket wins easily in the Electoral College with 212 electoral votes to 21 for the Democrats. McClellan carries only New Jersey, Delaware, and Kentucky of the loyal Union states. December 1864-- Sherman reaches the sea; Battle of Nashville Sherman completes his month-long march through Georgia by capturing Fort McAllister and the city of Savannah. Union General George H. Thomas defeats Confederate General John B. Hood at the Battle of Nashville on December 14-15, and then pursues and effectively destroys the remainder of Hood's army. |