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Fort Sumter Attack
Linclon wanted to take Fort Sumter and put it back under Union control. So instead of going into a soutern state with armed soliders he set a message to the Fort to say they were going to resupply the Fort when the ships arrived the Confederates inside the fort started to open fire on the ships -
Beginning of Bull Run Battles
Over two hours, 10,000 Federals gradually pushed back 4,500 rebels across the Warrington turnpike and up Henry House Hill. Reporters, congressmen and other onlookers who had traveled from Washington and were watching the battle from the nearby countryside prematurely celebrated a Union victory, but reinforcements from both Johnston and Beauregard's armies soon arrived on the battlefield to rally the Confederate troops. -
Hamptons Road
The Union ironclad Monitor, under the command of Lieutenant John Worden, arrived the same night. This 172-foot “Yankee Cheese Box on a raft,” with its water-level decks and armoured revolving gun turret, represented an entirely new concept of naval design. Thus the stage was set for the dramatic naval battle of March 9, with crowds of Union and Confederate supporters watching from the decks of nearby vessels and the shores on either side. -
Beginning of the Battle of Shiloh
On the morning of April 6, 1862, 40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen.Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. -
End of the Battle of Shiloh
The two day battle at Shiloh produced more than 23,000 casualties and was the bloodiest battle in America at that time This was a victory for the North -
Beginning of the Peninsula Campaign
Also know as the Battle of Seven PInes Gen. Johnston attempted to overwhelm two Federal corps isolated south of the Chickahominy River. Gen. Johnston was seriously wounded during the action, and command of the Confederate army devolved temporarily to Maj. Gen. G.W. Smith. -
End of the Peninsula Campaign
. On June 1, the Confederates renewed their assaults against the Federals who had brought up more reinforcements but made little headway. Both sides claimed victory. Confederate brigadier Robert H. Hatton was killed. Winning side: undetermined -
Beginning of the Second Bull Run
Robert E. Lee turned his attention to the threat posed by the newly formed Union Army of Virginia, under the command of Gen. John Pope. Lee sent Gen. T. J. “Stonewall” Jackson to Gordonsville on July 13. Jackson’s force crossed the Rapidan River and clashed with the vanguard of Pope’s army at Cedar Mountain, south of Culpeper, on August 9 -
Beginning of the Petersburg Campaign
In order to draw Pope’s army into battle, Jackson ordered an attack on a Federal column on August 28. The fighting at Brawner Farm lasted several hours and resulted in a stalemate. On August 29, Pope launched a series of assaults against Jackson’s position along an unfinished railroad grade. -
End of the Second Battle of Bull Run
On August 25 he sent Jackson on a sweeping flank march around the Union right to gain its rear and sever Pope’s supply line. At sunset on August 26, Jackson’s forces completed a remarkable 55-mile march. Jackson torched the remaining Union supplies at Manassas and slipped away, taking up a position north of Groveton, near the old Bull Run battlefield.
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End of the Petersburg Campaign
On August 30, Pope renewed his attacks. When massed Confederate artillery devastated a Union assault by Fitz John Porter’s command, Longstreet’s wing of 28,000 men counterattacked in the largest, simultaneous mass assault of the war. -
Battle of Antietam
The Union was along the Potomac in Sharpsburg, Maryland the Confederates tried multiple counterattacks on McClellan’s army at Sunken Road the Confederates couldn’t get a key defensive position. Causing the Confederates to retreat.
The battle ended in a Union victory. -
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Battle of Antietam
The was based along the Potomac in Sharpsburg, Maryland the Confederates tried mulitpe counterattacks on McClellan's army at Sunken Road the Confederates couldn't get a key defeive position on the battlefield so Lee's retreated. The battle ended with a Union victory. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
On December 13, Burnside ordered his left wing (led by General William B. Franklin) in an attack on Lee's right, commanded by Jackson, while the rest of his army attempted to assault Longstreet's First Corps at Marye's Heights. Though a division led by General George Meade managed to temporarily break Jackson's line, Franklin failed to send 50,000 more troops forward when given the opportunity, and Jackson was able to launch a successful counterattack. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Jacksons army was fighting in Chancellorsville, Virginia while fighting the Union army in the battle there was some confusion for the Confederate army they was admits a friendly fire and during this firing Jackson was mortally wounded. The confederates used multiple counterattacks on Hookers army across the Rappahannock River weakening Hooker’s right flank so the Confederate army force their men through the Union lines to overrun there defensive position.
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Beginning of the Battle of Vicksburg
In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Seeking to press his advantage before more Union troops could arrive, Lee gave discretionary orders to attack Cemetery Hill to Ewell, who had taken command of the Army of Northern Virginia's Second Corps after Lee's most trusted general, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, was mortally wounded at Chancellorsville. Ewell declined to order the attack. The battle was one of the most bloodiest battles of the civil war. The Union just sliped by victory. -
End of the Battle of Vicksburg
After Pemberton's army lost hold of Mississippi,the Confederates took a brutel blow. The lost caused the Confederacy to split in half. General Grants successes lead to his being named General-in-Chief of the Union armies.
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Battle of Chickamuga
In a stroke of luck for the Confederates, the advance occurred just at the point when Rosecrans was shifting his troops. As a result, the rebels were able to burst through a gap in the Federal lines and send the Union troops into a chaotic retreat north towards Chattanooga. Even as Bragg refused Longstreet's call for reinforcements, Thomas organized the remaining Federals.
The battle ended with a Confederate victory -
Gettysburg Address
At the dedication, the crowd listened for two hours to Everett before Lincoln spoke. Lincoln's address lasted just two or three minutes. The speech reflected his redefined belief that the Civil War was not just a fight to save the Union, but a struggle for freedom and equality for all, an idea Lincoln had not championed in the years leading up to the war. This was his stirring conclusion: "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. -
Beginning of the Battle of Wilderness
The opening battle of General Grant vs The Confederate Army of Northern Virgina, also known as the Overland Cmapaign, was fought at Wilderness. The Union V Corps Attacked Ewel's Corps on the Orange Turnpike, and Hill's corps fought the Getey's Dividion and Hancock's II corps. -
End of the Battle of Wilderness
On May 6th, Hancock attacked on along Plank Road. Gen. Longstreets troops arived just in time to prevent the collaspe of the the Confederates right flank.The battle was fought in thick cover, the flashes of the rifles cause a forest fire. But unlike other generals before him, Gen. Grant did not retreat, but urged his men to fight as they were burned alive.
Winning Side: Confederates -
Beginning of the Battle of Spotsylvania
After the Wilderness, Grant’s and Meade’s advance on Richmond by the left flank was stalled at Spotsylvania Court House on May 8. This two-week battle was a series of combats along the Spotsylvania front. The Union attack against the Bloody Angle at dawn, May 12-13, captured nearly a division of Lee’s army and came near to cutting the Confederate army in half. -
End of the Battle of Spotsylvania
On May 19, a Confederate attempt to turn the Union right flank at Harris Farm was beaten back with severe casualties. Union generals Sedgwick (VI Corps commander) and Rice were killed. Confederate generals Johnson and Steuart were captured, Daniel and Perrin mortally wounded. On May 21, Grant disengaged and continued his advance on Richmond.
Winning Side: Confederates -
Beginning of the battle of Mobile Bay
A combined Union force initiated operations to close Mobile Bay to blockade running. On August 5, Rear Admiral David Farragut’s Union fleet of eighteen ships boldly entered Mobile Bay devastating fire from Forts Gaines and Morgan. -
End of the Battle of Mobile Bay
Farragut engaged in a slow-motion slugfest with the Confederate ironclad CSS Tennessee. After forcing the Tennessee to surrender, Union forces besieged Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan By August 23, Fort Morgan, the last big holdout, fell.
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Sherman's March
As Sherman’s troops approached Savannah they sorely required supplies. Sherman determined that if he could take Fort McAllister, supply ships could reach him. Thus, he ordered Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard, commander of his right wing, to take the fort. Upon giving the order to attack, his men rushed forward through the various obstacles prepared for them, entered the fort, and captured it. With his supply line open, Sherman could now prepare for the siege and capture of Savannah.
Winning side: Union -
Battle of Appomattox
The battle was the last of the civil war with General Lee’s army surrendering to General Ulysses S. Grant army in the county court house of Appomattox in Virginia.
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Lincoln's Assassination
The assassination of Lincoln took place on Good Friday as the Civil War was drawing to a close. The assassination was carried out by John Wilkes Booth as part of a larger conspiracy to revive the Confederate Cause. Lincoln was shot in the head while watching the play Our American Cousin. He then died the next morning.
North Results: Suffering Blow to there goverment and there victory over the South.
South Results: The South though Booth had gone to far and rejected his cries of victory.
