RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Stonewall Jackson
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Robert E. Lee
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Abraham Lincoln
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Grant helped end the bloody Civil War when he directed the Union forces to lay siege to General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in Petersburg, a small city south of Richmond, Virginia, forcing its surrender in April 1865.
Detailed explanation-3: -Grant went on to defeat Robert E. Lee after another series of costly battles in the Overland Campaign, Petersburg, and Appomattox. After the Civil War, Grant was given his final promotion of General of the Armed Forces in 1866 and served until 1869.
Detailed explanation-4: -His 1862 triumphs at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in western Tennessee won him the nickname “Unconditional Surrender” Grant, and placed him before the public eye.