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Sherman said "War is hell" to the Southern friends he had made while living in New Orleans, before he reluctantly headed back North to rejoin the army at the outbreak of hostilities.
To fight the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia throughout the American civil war In addition, it attempted several times to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond.
No one person. It was the US Congress that proposed it on February 26th 1879. The Fifteenth Amendment was the result of a gradual development of the idea of racial equality in the matter of electoral voting rights.Most states had ratified it by 1880.The last state to adopt and ratify it was Tennessee, in 1997.See 'Related Links' below for more information
Yes, they lost the war and were conquered militarily so they could not leave the Union. Therefore they had to rejoin. But before they could regain the full powers of a member state in the union, congress required that the ratify the 14th Amendment to the constitution, guarantee the vote to black males, and prevent former high Confederate officials from serving in state government.