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Who were the key persons involved in the American Civil War part IV?
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If 'Part IV' means Year 4 (April 1864-April 1865), then the key persons were the Union President, Abraham Lincoln, and the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis.
The newly-appointed Union General-in-Chief was Ulysses S. Grant, who conducted a long campaign of attrition by pinning-down the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee.
Meanwhile, the other Confederate army, the Army of Tennessee under Joseph E. Johnston, was conducting a brilliant tactical retreat from Sherman towards Atlanta, which the Southern leadership considered to be not in the best Confederate (romantic, gung-ho) spirit. Johnston was replaced by a more Confederate-style General - John Bell Hood - who led his army to disaster. If the name of the Union general George Thomas, who defeated him at Nashville, is not better-known, it is because he feuded badly with Grant, his superior, and later President, who was keeper of the 'official' version of the war.
Sherman then planned his March to the Sea, shortening the war by months at almost nil casualties, while Phil Sheridan did much the same thing in the Shenandoah, reducing the Confederates to near-starvation.
Lee eventually surrendered to Grant, some people believing that he should strictly have surrendered to George Meade, commanding the Army of the Potomac, which had defeated him. However, Lee had recently been appointed General-in-Chief of the Confederates, and it was appropriate enough that he should surrender to his Union counterpart, Grant.
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