The Civil War played a great part toward the United States future as a united society, however, the role that Tennessee contributed to the Nations outcome was an interesting one yet partly complicated. Tennessee found itself engulfed in a war that would largely affect not only the Tennesseans; but the American civilians, Soldiers and the Country that was to come out of the war that no one could win. The Civil war, tore apart the country by North and South, Unions and Confederates, Northerners were known as Yankees and Southerners were known as Rebels. With Tennessee sitting on the border line of the Union and Confederate states it created more of a complication as this forced them to take a side.
Tennessee’s geography took a large part in deciding the position of its state. Western Tennessee is widely covered in flatland and is rich in fertile soil. This was just what …show more content…
During the four years of countless battles and endless suffering called the Civil War, citizens and soldiers would be engulfed by hardships, sufferings, losses of friends and loved ones. The end of war was not officially given until April 9th, 1865. This would also mark the significant date of the peace that Tennesseans were so in need of.
On April 2nd, 1865, General Robert E. Lee, Commanding General of the Confederate States was finally cornered by Commanding General, Ulysses S. Grant. With his final and most difficult decision, General Lee was either to continue his fight in a war of lost hope or surrender to the Union as a loss to the Confederate States of America that would soon only be the United States once again. Later at 4 p.m. Union Commanding General Grant had planned for one final attack on the Confederate States of America forcing Lee to surrender. Lee then wrote to Grant his surrender of the Confederate