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South Carolina Secedes from the Union
was the first state to vote to secede from the Union and was the founding state of the Confederate States of AMerica -
Confederacy is Founded
The rest of the deep south secedded and found their own government, called the Confederacy. -
Fort Sumter attacked
Fort Sumter was fired upon by South, North tried to send food, south took this as a hostile act towards them and fired down fort sumter until they were forced to surrender. -
Upper South Secedes
After fort sumter, states were forced to choose sides. the south chose the confederate side because they thought it was wrong to not have the right of secession in the union government, -
First Battle of Bull run
, also known as the First Battle of Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces), was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the City of Manassas. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. The confederates won. -
Grant captures confederate forts
general ulysses s. grant captured the confederate forts Henry and Donelson. -
McClellan leads unsuccesful campaign
Mclellan led an unsuccesful campaign on the peninsula southeast of richmond. -
union victory in new orleans
Farragut mananges to capture new orleans for the union -
second battle of bull run
The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas, as it was called by the Confederacy, was fought August 28–30, 1862,[1] as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) fought in 1861 on the same ground. It was confederate victory. -
Battle of Antietam
also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties. Mcclellan stops lee. -
Emancipation Proclomation
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War under his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced. -
Battle of Fredericksberg
The Battle of Fredericksburg 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. The Union army's futile frontal assaults on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as he -
Emancipation Proclamation Issued
he Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War under his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign. It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville. It was a Confederate Victory. -
Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg
The North gains major victories in these battles. -
Battle of Chattanooga
The Chattanooga Campaign[1] was a series of maneuvers and battles in October and November 1863, during the American Civil War. Following the defeat of Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans's Union Army of the Cumberland at the Battle of Chickamauga in September, the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg besieged Rosecrans and his men by occupying key high terrain around Chattanooga, Tennessee.Union victory. -
Battle in Northern Virginia
With less than 150 miles separating the two capital cities of Washington, D.C. and Richmond, Virginia, Northern Virginia found itself in the center of much of the conflict of the American Civil War. The area was the site of many battles and bloodshed. The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary army for the Confederate States of America in the east. Owing to the regions proximity to Washington D.C and the Potomac River, the armies of both sides frequently occupied and traversed Northern Virgin -
Atlanta falls
in preparation of the Union Army's march to Savannah, Sherman ordered for Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the city's churches and hospitals.[ -
Lincoln re-elected
Lincoln is re-elected president, defeating mcclellan -
Shermans March
Sherman marches through Georgia destroying every town in site
