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Fort Sumter
The Confederates are the first ones to fire in Fort Sumter. The Confederates were demanding the Union to surrender or face an attack. Lincoln would abandon Fort Sumter but he would enforce it. Virginia ends up succeeding. The North side had lost one soldier and one was wounded. The south faced no deaths. -
Battle at Bull Run
The battle was near Manassa Virginia. It was the first major battle of the civil war, and a confederate victory. The North had 3,000 casualties and the South had 1,750 casualties. -
Battle of Shiloh
Grant wanted to obtain Corinth, that if was obtained the Union would control the region.This was a Union victory and this helped prevent the south obtaining supplies. This was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. The Union had more than 13,000 casualties and the Confederates had more than 10,000 casualties. -
Battle of Antietam
This battle was a Union victory. 23,000 casualties on both sides. This was one of the bloodiest single day of the Civil War. The end result was the invasion of Antietam. This Union victory led to the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Battle of Richmond
Confederate victory, This was the political home of the Confederates. The Union had been defending the town of Richmond, Virginia. The Union had 206 casualties, the Confederates had 78 casualties. -
Emancipation Proclamation
All slaves in the state that are currently engaged in rebellion against the Union shall be free. Lincoln did not have the power to abolish slavery but he can change it to a abolish crusade. His official duty was to save the Union and is not either to save or destroy slavery. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Considered the most important engagement of the civil war. This was a Union victory. Largest causalities of the war. It was described as the wars turning point. The Union had 23,049 casualties. The Confederates had 28,063 casualties. More than a third of Lees army. -
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln had delivered this speech in Gettysburg after 4 and a half months after the victory at Gettysburg. The purpose was to urge everyone to honor those that had died at Gettysburg by striving to maintain the kind of nation imagined by Americas Founders -
Surrender at Appomattox
On the morning of that day it was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. The results was a surrender of the Confederate army to the Union Army. Lee was the general that surrendered to General Grant. Their were 260 Union casualties and 440 confederate casualties. -
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln had served as the 16th president of the United States. He led the nation through the American Civil War, the bloodiest war. He was assassinated by a confederate named John Wilkes Booth. His motive was to avenge the Confederate States.
