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Harpers Ferry
This day, a radical abolitionist named John Brown and a group or 21 men raided the Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Five of the men were black. There were a couple free blacks, a freed slave, and a fugitive slave. The Dred Scott decision made it illegal to assist slaves at this time. Brown and his group of men captured several buildings and weapons. He did this hoping to create an uprise in the South. -
President Lincoln
The issue tied in with the presiential election of 1860 was bound to be slavery. The kansas-nebraska act of 1854 intensified the battle to spread slavery to further countries. Lincoln won the vote over John C. Breckenridge. Lincoln didnt carry any southern states. -
South Carolina
On this day, South Carolina seceded from the Confederate States of America. -
Mississippi
This day, Mississippi seceded from the Confederate States of America. -
Florida
On this day, Florida seceded from the Confederate States of America. -
Alabama
Alabama seceded this day in history. -
Georgia
This is the day in history that Georgia seceded from the Confederate States. -
Louisiana
This is the day Louisiana seceded. -
Texas
This day in history, Texas seceded from the Confederate States of America. -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter, located in Charleston, South Carolina, was a coastal masonry fortification. This site is most known for the shots initiating the American Civil War. Confederate batteries opened fire for 34 straight hours on the fort. Edmund Ruffin, noted Virginian claimed that he fired the first shot on Fort Sumter. -
Virginia
Virginia seceded on this day in history. -
Arkansas
This is the day Arkansas seceded. -
North Carolina
North Carolina seceded from the Confederate States of America on this day in history. -
Tennessee
Tennessee seceded this day in history. -
The First Battle of Bull Run
This battle is also known as the First Battle of Manassas. Obviously the battle was fought near Manassas, Virginia. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. -
Antietam
This battle was fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, at the Antietam Creek. It was the first major battle in the American Civil War that took place on northern soil. Having about 23,000 deaths, this was the bloodiest single-day battle in history. After pushing Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Union Army Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan launched attacks against Lee's army. this started the battle that day. -
Emancipation Proclamation
This was issued by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. It declared freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to the Union control by the first day of the next year. On the first day of the next year, Lincoln named ten states that this would apply. -
The Battle of Fredricksburg
This battle was fought in and around Fredricksburg, Virginia. The battle was fought from December 11th to the 15th. It was fought between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac. Lee's army won. -
Battle of Cold Harbor
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Battle of Chattanooga
This was a series of maneuvers and battles in October and November 1863. After the defeat of Gen. William S. Rosecrans's Union Army of the Cumberland at the Battle of Chickamauga in September, the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg besieged Rosecrans and his men by occupying key high terrain around Chattanooga, Tennessee. -
Siege of Knoxville
Confederate General James Longstreet places the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, under siege. After two weeks and one failed attack, he abandoned the siege and rejoined General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The Knoxville campaign began in November when Longstreet took 17,000 troops from Chattanooga and moved to secure eastern Tennessee for the Confederates. Longstreet took his 17,000 troops and moved toward Knoxville. Facing him was General Ambrose Burnside and 5,000 Yankees. -
Gettysburg
The speech was givin at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by Abraham Lincoln. This was four and a half months after the Union armies defeated their enemies. -
Battle of Cold Harbor
This was the final battle of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, It is remembered as one of the bloodiest and most lopsided battles in American History. Thousands of Union soldiers were slaughtered in a frontal assault against the fortified troops of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Grant said that at Cold Harbor, no advantage was gained to compensate for the heavy loss he sustained. -
Sherman's March to the sea
Sherman's March to the sea is the common name for the Savannah Campaign conducted in late 1864. Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman marched his troops out of the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia. By December 21 he and his troops captured the port of Savannah. -
Appomattox Courthouse
It was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the end of the Civil War. Lee's final stand was at Appomattox Court House, where he launched an attack to break through the Union force to his front, which he assumed consisted entirely of cavalry. When he realized that the cavalry was backed up by two corps of Union infantry, he had no choice but to surrender. -
Assassination of Lincoln
This is one of the major events in the American Civil War. It occured on Good Friday. President Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre with his wife and two guests. John Wilkes Booth killed President Lincoln.
