-
election of lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is elected as 16th U.S. president and the first Republican. Receives 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote. -
Secession of South Carolina
Southern Secession began with the secession of South Carolina from the Union. The illustration to your right presents an image of the seceding South Carolina Congressional delegation. The image was created by noted artist Winslow Homer from a Mathew Brady photograph. The illustration appeared in the December 22, 1860 edition of Harper's Weekly. -
secession of Florida
Though Florida had the smallest population of the Southern states, some 16,000 Floridians fought in the Civil War. While this was a small number when compared with other southern states, it was the highest percentage of available men of military age from any Confederate state. The state also provided resources valuable to the Confederate cause. Florida's coastline had important harbors and its products, such as sugar, pork, and salt, helped to feed the Southern soldiers -
secession of Alabama
-
Secession of texas
The state of Texas declared its secession from the United States on February 1, 1861, and joined the Confederate States of America on March 2, 1861, replacing its governor, Sam Houston, when he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. During the subsequent American Civil War, Texas was most useful for supplying soldiers for Confederate forces and in the cavalry. Texas was mainly a "supply state" for the Confederate forces until mid-1863, when the Union capture of the Mississippi -
ft. sumter
-
secession of virgina
-
secession of arkansas
Settled largely by slaveholders, Arkansas seceded from the Union when the Civil War broke out in 1861. The most important battle fought in the state was the battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern) in 1862. Both Arkansas Post and Little Rock were captured by federal troops in 1863. -
secession of north carolina
-
secession of tennesse
The people of Tennessee were divided during the Civil War (1861-1865). East Tennessee was Union and Middle and West Tennessee were Confederate. Tennessee Governor Harris called an extra session of the Tennessee Legislature to meet on January 7, 1861. This Legislature passed a resolution asking the people to vote on the 9th of February for or against a Convention to consider the secession of Tennessee from the Union. The people voted by a margin of four to one against secession. -
Secession of mississippi
Mississippi was the second state to secede from the union. Mississippi seceded on January 9, 1861. The story was reported in the February 2, 1861 edition of Harper's Weekly, which carried the front page illustration at right, entitled "The Seceding Mississippi Delegation in Congress". -
secession of Georgia
Georgia's
Flag of Independence
secession from the Union followed nearly two decades of increasingly intense sectional conflict over the status of slavery in western territories and over the future of slavery in the United States. -
secession of louisiana
Because the Mississippi River formed much of Louisiana's border, control of vital ports became a strategic factor for both sides. Once war was declared, the Union's objective in Louisiana was to gain control of the Mississippi River, forcing Confederate troops to defend Louisiana and prevent Federal troops from dividing the eastern and western parts of the Confederacy along the Mississippi. -
first battel of bull run
Bull Run, FIRST BATTLE OF: The gathering of Confederate troops at MANASSAS JUNCTION required prompt and vigorous movements for the defense of Washington, D. C. Beauregard was there with the main Confederate army, and Gen. J. E. Johnston was at Winchester, in the Shenandoah Valley, with a large body of troops, with which he might reinforce the former. Gen. Robert Patterson was at Martinsburg with 18,000 Nationals to keep Johnston at Winchester. -
harper's ferry
Harper's Ferry, a town in Jefferson county, W. Va.; 49 miles northwest of Washington; at the junction of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers; the scene of several stirring events during the Civil War period. Within twenty-four hours after the passage of the ordinance of secession by the Virginia convention, April 17, 1861, the authorities of that State set forces in motion to seize the United States armory and arsenal in the town, in which the national government had 10,000 muskets made every year -
battle of fredricksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg, fought in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, from December 11 to December 15, 1862, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War. The Union Army suffered terrible casualties in futile frontal assaults on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city -
antietam
23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of savage combat on September 17, 1862. The Battle of Antietam ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia’s first invasion into the North and led to Abraham Lincoln’s issuance of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. -
first consumption act
-
emancipiation proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation consists of two executive orders issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. The first one, issued September 22, 1862, declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. The second order, issued January 1, 1863, named ten specific states where it would apply. Lincoln issued the Executive Order by his authority as "Commander in Chief of the -
gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War -
siege of knoxville
The Knoxville Campaign[1] was a series of American Civil War battles and maneuvers in East Tennessee during the fall of 1863. Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside occupied Knoxville, Tennessee, and Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet were detached from General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Chattanooga to prevent Burnside's reinforcement of the besieged Union forces there. Ultimately, Longstreet's own siege of Knoxville ended when Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sh -
battle of chattanooga
-
battle of cold harbor
-
sherman's march to the sea
-
appomattax courtthouse
-
asssassin of lincoln
