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Election of Lincoln
Lincoln won an electoral majority without an absolute majority of total popular votes. The voter turnout rate in 1860 was the second-highest on record. -
Ft. Sumter
Fort Sumter started the American Civil war. Confederate opened fire, firing for 34 straight hours, on the fort. Causing the Union colors to fall down, surrender and evacuate, On April 13. No Union soldiers died in the actual battle though a Confederate soldier bled to death having been wounded by a misfiring cannon. One Union soldier died and another was mortally wounded during the 47th shot of a 100 shot salute, allowed by the Confederacy -
First Battle of Bull Run
It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. Union casualties were 460 killed, 1,124 wounded, and 1,312 missing or captured; Confederate casualties were 387 killed, 1,582 wounded, and 13 missing. -
Harpers Ferry
The Civil War was disastrous for Harpers Ferry. The town was transformed into an industrial center: Between 1801 and its destruction in 1861 to prevent its capture during the Civil War, the Armory produced more than 600,000 muskets, rifles, and pistols. After the end of the Civil War, Harpers Ferry, along with all of both Berkeley and Jefferson Counties, was separated from Virginia and incorporated into West Virginia -
Battle of Fredricksburg
The Battle of Fredricksburg was remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War. The south won due to a truce of wanting to attend to a wound -
Emancipation Proclamation
This was a document decided by Lincoln that declared freedom to those who rebeled against the U.S. This was temoparary fro the first 100 days. But onyl the slaves that were in the listed states were able to be free. The enabled slaves were able to be free as long as they didnt try to harm their owners and to walk away and forget it all. -
Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War. Between 46,000 and 51,000 Americans were casualties in the three day battle. this battle effected the Confederates greatly, they had lost politically as well as militarily. How ever the battle of gettysburg was known as the turning point of the war, that has lasted about two years. -
Battle of Chattanooga
Chattanooga was the home of the indians. each year the population was growing and Lincoln understood how important it was to the rail for the southern cause. Three times the Union Army would fight for this land. Chattanooga remained to be in the Unions hands. Lincolns plan was to divide and conquer between the confederacy. -
Siege of Knoxville
The Knoxville campaign began when Longstreet took 17,000 troops from Chattanooga and moved to secure eastern Tennessee for the Confederates. -
Battle of Cold Harbor
Sheridan’s troopers threw back an attack by Confederate infantry. Confederate reinforcements arrived from Richmond and from the Totopotomoy Creek lines. Abandoning the well-defended approaches to Richmond, Grant sought to shift his army quickly south of the river to threaten Petersburg. there was confederate victory! -
Sherman's march to the sea
Savannah Campaign was the common used name used in 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. sherman ordered his troops to burn crops, kill livestock, consume supplies, and destroy civilian infrastructure along their path. Sherman's mission ended at the port on December 22. -
appomattox courthouse
before the civil there was the railroad bypassed Clover Hill, that is now known as the appomattox courthouse.
