B. Sherman led the Union Army in the taking of Savannah and the burning of Atlanta
Explanation:
- Before the election, thanks to Sherman's conquest of Atlanta, public opinion again clung to the administration. Lincoln was elected president for the second time.
- During the winter the war was nearing its end. Sherman captured the Savannah in December and continued on to South and North Carolina with constant resistance from Joseph Johnston's forces. Grant was trying to besiege Lee in Richmond and starve him into surrender. In February, Lincoln met with Alexander Stevens and revealed that the Confederacy was determined in its fight. In March, the Confederate Congress decided that slaves should be recruited into the army and declared free. The Confederate soldiers saw that the war was lost, and desertions began to decay in the Lee and Johnston armies.
- In March 1865, in his second inaugural speech, Lincoln emphasized that he would do anything to achieve lasting peace and preserve it. It became clear that in the next few years, there would be a struggle for reconstruction between the executive and radicals in Congress.
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