[iowamark]

The Confederacy’s last hope lay in electing a Democrat President in 1864. Lincoln’s re-election with an increased Republican majority meant that the end was near. Sherman was marching for the sea through Georgia in November, but the Confederates were still able to attack in Tennessee. Their decisive defeats ended the war in the West.

[Verginius Rufus]

"And now I'm going southward, for my heart is full of woe
I'm going back to Georgia, to find my Uncle Joe.
You may talk about your Beauregard and sing of Bobby Lee
But the gallant Hood of Texas, he played hell in Tennessee."

(Uncle Joe refers to Joseph Johnston)