Zoe /zoe/ [2 sylls.] as a girls' name is pronounced ZOH-ee, ZOH. It is of Greek origin, and the meaning of Zoe is life. Zooey is a variant from JD Salinger's novel Franny and Zooey, although the character Zooey is a young man named Zachery.Popular in Greece. Actresses Zoe Caldwell, Zooey Deschanel.t is of Greek origin, and the meaning of Zoe is life. Zooey is a variant from JD Salinger's novel Franny and Zooey, although the character Zooey is a young man named Zachery. Popular in Greece. Actresses Zoe Caldwell, Zooey Deschanel.
Publisher. A+E Networks. On this day in 1864, Union General William T. Sherman presents the city of Savannah, Georgia, to President Abraham Lincoln. Sherman captured thecity after his famous March to the Sea from Atlanta. Savannah had been one of the last major ports that remained open to the Confederates.
Abraham Lincoln, SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 4 March 1865. Lincoln delivered this address to a throng of thirty or forty thousand people, many of them African Americans, gathered around the Capitol. The inauguration took place on a stormy day near the end of a war in which over. 600,000 soldiers, from North and South, lost their lives.