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1862 BCE
Terrible battles
It showed how terrible its cost in human life would be, beginning with the two bloody days of the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. -
1861 BCE
Advances
There were advances in medical treatment, military tactics, the chaplain service, and other fields. -
Over the course of the War
Weapons ranged from obsolete flintlocks to state-of-the-art repeaters. -
How began the civil war?
Officially began when Confederate forces bombarded the Union controlled Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay -
Volunteers
Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the Southern rebellion, a move that prompted Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and North Carolina to reverse themselves and vote in favor of session. -
First Battles
A skirmish involving over 3,000 soldiers, Philippi was the first battle of the civil war. -
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Battles
Battle of Rich Mountain, (West) Virginia
First Battle of Bull Run Manassas, Virginia -
General Ulysses S. Grant
He took command and began his Civil War career. -
President Lincoln
President Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates and emphasizes the enlisting of black soldiers in the Union Army. The war to preserve the Union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery. January -
Affecting male citizens
The U.S. Congress enacts a draft, affecting male citizens aged 20 to 45, but also exempts those who pay $300 or provide a substitute. -
March to the Sea
After destroying Atlanta's warehouses and railroad facilities, Sherman, with 62,000 men begins a March to the Sea. President Lincoln on advice from Grant approved the idea. -
The North won the Civil War
After four years of conflict, the last major Confederate armies surrendered to the United States. The war bankrupted the South, left its roads, farms, and factories in ruins, and all but wiped out an entire generation of men. -
After the war was over
After the war was over, the Constitution was amended to free the slaves, to assure “equal protection under the law” for American citizens, and to grant black men the right to vote.
