But so were those of the South. And the Confederacy's supply problems were even greater than those of the Union.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

The way was now open for the armies of the North to march into the heart of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

For the most part, the Confederacy depended on privately owned ships to get goods in and out of the South.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Union troops quickly moved into Richmond.Then they raised the United States flag over the once proud capital of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

He said he wanted to show the people of the Confederacy that their government could not protect them.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

They believed the Confederacy would fall if the Union won a big military victory early in the war.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

There also was the danger that fighting would cause slave states still in the Union to secede and join the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Wherever Grant went, former soldiers waited to shake the hand of the man who had led them to victory against the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

In addition to these victories, the Confederacy claimed responsibility for several new naval technologies during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

And it sank,too. The Confederacy also developed very effective underwater explosive devices for use in the harbors.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The surrender of the main army of the Confederacy gives hope of a righteous and speedy peace.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

In eighteen sixty-four the Union of northern states and the Confederacy of southern states were still fighting.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

Surrender finally came for General Robert E.Lee and the Confederacy he had served as a great soldier.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

President Abraham Lincoln is fighting to keep the Southern states of the Confederacy from leaving the Union.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Then,he permitted former officials of the confederacy to run for office in their states' new elections.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the final surrender of the armies of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

For several days,it seemed that all these states would secede and join the southern confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

The North had not won a decisive victory in Virginia, the heart of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

We will cut that state off from the Confederacy, and give it to the alligators!"

VOA: special.2009.11.19

But with the Confederacy being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

This would split the states of the Confederacy and might end its very existence.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

One was John Surratt. Like Booth,he supported the southern Confederacy during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

The government of the Confederacy would have to go with him or be captured.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Even with its victories and technologies,however, the Confederacy could not stop the Union navy.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Supporters of the Confederacy had damaged trains,rail lines and bridges between the two cities.

VOA: special.2009.08.20