The Stakes-Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter – Locust Grove VA - U.S. Civil War Sites on Waymarking.com

The Stakes

Crushing Defeats, lost territory, and shortages of men, food, and armaments beset the Confederates in 1863. Their hopes in 1864 lay not in absolute victory, but in Northern disunity. Continued military stalemate might result in Abraham Lincoln losing the coming presidential election. But could a shrinking land base, inadequate industry, and insufficient transport sustain the outnumbered Confederate armies long enough? Could Lee again forge victory against great odds?

Divided over the issue of slavery, discouraged by huge losses without great victories, and rent by political division, the Union war effort sagged in 1864. What happened on the battlefields of Virginia and Georgia that spring and summer would decide the war. Would Lincoln—determined to carry the war to a victorious end—survive the election? Or would the Democrats—pledged to negotiate an end to the war—assume power over a dismembered?

“…We should neglect no honorable means of dividing and weakening our enemies…It seems to me that the most effectual mode of accomplishing this object…is to give all the encouragement we can, consistently with the truth, to the rising peace party of the North.”

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