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Abraham Lincoln is Elceted President
The election of 1860 broke down to John C. Breckinridge and Abraham Lincoln. The United States presidential election of 1860 was the begining of the American Civil War. The nation had been divided through most of the 50s. In 1860 this issue finally came to surface, hurting the Democratic Party into Southern and Northern sides and bringing Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party power without the support of a single Southern state. -
Fort Sumter
April, 1861—considered the starting point of the Civil War fighting. It was a federal fort in southern territory (the Carolinas had seceded). The South wanted it, but the Federal govt. didn’t want to surrender it. The commander barricaded himself and his troops inside the fort, waiting for reinforcements. Once they ran out of food, the South fired on them for thirty-four hours. The fort surrendered. -
The Battle of Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces and still often used in the Southern United States), was fought July 21, 1861, near Manassas, Virginia. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. -
The Battle of Shiloh
April 6-7, 1862. The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack against the Union Army of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. The Confederates achieved considerable success on the first day but were ultimately defeated on the second day. -
The Battle of Antietam
On September 16, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan confronted Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Sharpsburg, Maryland. At dawn September 17, Hooker’s corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee’s left flank that began the single bloodiest day in American military history. -
The Battle of Fredricksberg
The Battle of Fredericksburg, the principal battle of the Fredericksburg Campaign, was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, 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. It 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. -
Stonewall Jackson is Killed
Jackson led his men at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. However, after returning from the battlefield he was accidentally shot by one of his own men. Jackson's left arm was amputated but he developed pneumonia and he died at Guinea Station on 10th May, 1863. -
Battle of Vicksberg
Began in the spring of 1863. Control of the Miss. River was a major priority of the Union. Grant is given the job of taking Vicksburg, one of the last cities on the River not under Union control. Vicksburg was very hard to take. Grant made several unsuccessful attempts before finally surrounding Vicksburg and blocking any food from coming in. The citizens and soldiers in Vicksburg held out as long as they could, but got down to eating rats. They surrendered on July 4, 186 -
West Virginia becomes a State
West Virginia Admitted as the 35th State in the Union
June 20, 1863
"Mountaineers Are Always Free" -
The Battle of Gettysburg
Was 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 and is often described as the war's turning point. -
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln was the second speaker on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Lincoln was preceded on the podium by the famed orator Edward Everett, who spoke to the crowd for two hours. Lincoln followed with his now immortal Gettysburg Address. -
U. S Grant Takes Control of Union Army
U. S Grant Takes control of the Union Army during the Civil War -
Licoln's Re- election
Lincoln was elected in a landslide due to his Emancipation Proclaimation. He beat out George B. McClellan. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. It is widely remembered for inflicting significant property damage, particularly to industry and infrastructure (as per the doctrine of total war), but also to civilian property. -
Assassination of Lincoln
Unfortunately Lincoln was assassinated in Fords Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He lived until the next morning in the house across the theatre where he passed away. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
General Robert E. Lee Surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant. On the evening of April the 8th, 1865 General Robert E. Lee and the remaining ones of his "once-proud" Army of Northern Virginia arrived in Appomattox County. Thus surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War -
13th Amendment
Passed on December 18th, 1865 and was the final statement to end slavery.
