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Firsts Shots of War
-Davis choses war and firsts shots of the war are fired
-South Carolinians invade Fort Sumpter -
Virginia Seceeds
-Virginia leaves the union because they would not fight against their other confederate states -
Bull Run
-30,000 union soldiers march into Richmond
-battle goes back and forth but the south eventually won -
Fort Henry and Donelson
-Union army invades tennessee
-Ulysses S. Grant captures confederate Fort Henry and Donelson -
Seven Days Battle
-McClellan and his Union troops move in on Richmond
-Lee and the confederates use unorthadox tactics to push union soldiers out of Richmond and out towards the sea -
Antietam
-McClellan and his troops take on Lee and the confederates and win
-Lee retreats to virginia -
Emancipation Proclamation
-Licoln declared that all the slaves inthe rebellious states are now free, slaves in other states still enslaved. -
Battle at Chancellorsville
-Lee and his troops send Union general Joseph Hooker and his troops into retreat serving as another southern victory over the north -
Conscription
-Although the confederates started this draft in '62, the union didnt put it in place till '63
-this draft made it mandatory for some people in the populations of each regions go into the army. -
Gettysburg
-Confederate troops heading towards Gettysburg for supplies run into John Buford and his union troops
-Lee and his troops take back control of Gettysburg as Union troops lose strength -
Gettysburg Day 2
-both sides havr troops ready to fight for Gettysburg
-Chamberlaine and his Union troops continuously defeat rebels in attacks and confederate troops ended up surrendering -
Gettysburg Day 3
- Lee's troops having a good start, march forward into Union lines and end up getting attacked with great force by the union troops
- Lee and his men give up and march back towards virginia
- both sides suffered many deaths in these battles at Gettysburg
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Draft Riots
-White men in NYC didnt think it fair that they had to fight to free slaves in fear that the newly free men would come north and take their jobs
-july 13-16 riots flowed through NYC and left 100 dead by the end -
Fort Pillow
-Confederate soldiers kill 200+ African American prisoners in Tennessee
-confederacy didnt treat the camptured africans as prisoners of war and executed them, the murders at Fort Pillow is an example of this. -
The Election of 1864
-Lincolns republican party is re-named the Nation Union
-third party made for people with different ideas on readmitting the confederate states
-Lincoln vs. Andrew Johnson and McClellan
-Lincoln wins -
Confederates Surrender
-Lee's troops captured in Petersburg
-Confederates abandon their Capital
-Lee and Grant meet to make surrender official
