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If richmond will fall than when richmond will fall. ♪ >> thou makest us to turn back from the enemy and they which hate us... >> jefferson davis sends his family away for safety and prepares for the worst, but he still has faith that lee will fend off the federals and save richmond one more time. >> let us be ever mindful... as god showed loving favor. heavenly father, we beseech you. let the sacrifice of our lambs not be in vain. >> my god. >> people, please. >> after years of being targeted by the union, the confederate capital of richmond finally falls, but unlike many of the cities taken...

>> senator. >> mr. president. >> president lincoln's immediate view of what the future holds is a war that will be far less intense than the one that he's going to get. >> mr. president, southerners are not to be taken lightly. these are strong-willed people. >> captain, thank you, but as you can see, i'm quite busy. >> sherman said, "these politicians think this is going to be easy on both sides, and they're unleashing something that they can't control, and this is going to be a nightmare." >> you politicians got yourselves on a hell of a fix. i'll have no more to do with it. >> sherman retur...

And just give the keys to the city to him," and he took savannah without having to lay it under siege or anything like that, without having to destroy anything. >> with sherman's successful march to the sea, lincoln may now have the political capital needed to pass the 13th amendment and secure his legacy. >> at the outset of the war, lincoln is clearly anti-slavery. however, his primary objective is to save the union, but the brilliance of lincoln is that he allowed himself the freedom to shift his views. he would later come to realize that if the union wins the war but retains slavery, then ...

These tracks were violently uprooted, heated up, melted and wrapped around the trunks of trees, making them virtually unusable. there was no way you were actually going to replace those ties in time to keep your railroads running, and it was, in fact, cutting of those railroad lines that aided the end of the war. >> while many think of william sherman as an unhinged madman wildly wreaking havoc through the south, sherman knows better than to march blindly into the heart of the confederacy. he's much smarter than that. using u.s. census records, sherman locates the most prosperous areas along t...

Upon this opportunity here. by god, this war may never end. >> it is a risk, but i trust you and sherman to make it a risk worth taking. >> very good. >> turned loose to forage and destroy, sherman first attacks confederate railroads, cutting off supplies to the rebel army and the citizens of georgia. >> william tecumseh sherman said the most important question in his atlanta campaign was one of supplies, and the railroads are the key. >> for years, the way the union army had been disrupting southern railroads and vice versa was simply just to remove the tracks, but the tracks could be replace...