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By close of 1864, Abraham Lincoln had been reelected, the Union military had taken Nashville from Standard Hood, and Sherman experienced concluded his total conflict, "slash-and-burn" march of destruction to Savannah, Georgia, offering it as a Xmas present to Lincoln. Nevertheless, with everything relatively falling to items, the South still performed out hope of some sort of wonder, and Davis even attempted to send a peace delegation to talk with Lincoln in the early a few months of 1865. On January 28, 1865 as Union Standard Ulysses S. Offer was continuing to lay down siege to Lee's military at Petersburg, Virginia, Davis directed three commissioners headed by Vice-President Stephens to start informal peace discussions with Lincoln. By Feb 3, however, the discussions, known as the Hampton Highways Conference, came up to a stalemate as Lincoln would accept nothing less than total union, while Davis would only accept Southern self-reliance. Even at that time, the South was obviously on its last legs. Standard George H. Thomas ruined John Bell Hood's Confederate military at the fights of Nashville and Franklin, leaving only two large Confederate armies still in the field. Lee's military was weakened by desertion, insufficient items and casualties, and Joseph E. Johnston's military could barely avoid against Sherman's military as it was advancing north toward Virginia. To most observers, the South was obviously attaining its end, but Davis experienced no purpose of quitting the war. Whilst he was fleeing, he attempted to order Confederate generals in the field to keep struggling. On Apr 9, 1865, Lee formally surrendered his weary military to Offer at Appomattox. Appomattox is frequently cited as the finish of the Civil Battle, but there still continued to be several Confederate armies in the united states, mainly under the command of Johnston, the same commander who showed up with reinforcements by rail during the First Challenge of Bull Run and provided the South hope with victory in the first major challenge. But on Apr 26, 1865, Johnston defied Davis's orders and surrendered most of his causes to Standard Sherman. Over the next month, the rest of the Confederate causes would surrender or quit. Thus, by May, millions of Americans were inhaling a collective sigh of alleviation that the Civil Battle was finally over. Standard Lee experienced surrendered his Military of North Virginia in Apr, used quickly by all other commanders of major armies. Besides a few diehards in places like Missouri and the Indian Place, there was no armed resistance to Federal government control. The long, hard street to Reconstruction experienced begun, or so everyone experienced thought. Western world of the Mississippi, in places like Traditional western Louisiana and Tx, the rebels still dreamed of holding out. It was here that the final section of the Civil Battle was written, a section that is peculiar and completely unnecessary. It was here, greater than a month after the South lost the Civil Battle, that the South received the last challenge of that conflict. The very last skirmish between the two sides officially took place May 12-13, ending ironically with a Confederate victory at the Challenge of Palmito Ranch in Tx. As fate would have it, the last fighting with each other of the Civil Battle took place two times after President Davis had been captured in Georgia.
