1864: The Year that Broke the Confederacy

It was the year that pitted Grant against Lee in Virginia. It was the year of making Georgia “howl.” It was the year of the “Valley.” It was the year that re-elected Lincoln and broke the Confederacy.

“The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here,” said Abraham Lincoln at a cemetery dedication in Pennsylvania. Yet how many remember “what they did” in the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor? And how many remember what a Sherman “necktie” is? Or the meaning of the phrase, “Breadbasket of the Confederacy?” 

Enjoy a private lecture for you and your guests by historian and Bach in Baltimore Board Member, Ray Sprenkle.