Chapter 25 of Team of Rivals focuses on the 1864 presidential election and the fall of Atlanta to Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant. Key figures discussed include President Lincoln, members of his family and cabinet like Salmon P. Chase, William P. Fessenden, and Montgomery Blair, abolitionists Frederick Douglass and John Charles Frémont, and Confederate generals Jubal Early and John Breckinridge. The chapter also mentions Union generals George McClellan and William Seward and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.