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Fort Sumter
At the beggining of April the Confederate authorities demanded that Fort Sumter be evacuated, when the union refused the confederates open fired on the fort. Anderson was forced to evacuate on April 14th after 34 hours of getting shot at. The confederates then took over the fort. -
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The Civil War
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Bull Run
The union started it. The confederates ended it. The union lost 3,000 men, the confederates lost 1,750 men. Even though the Confederates won they were too disorganized to chase after the union who got to Washington by July 22.It ended on July 21st. -
Peninsula Campaign
The Peninsula Campaign was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862, Despite claiming victory at Seven Pines, McClellan was shaken by the experience. He redeployed all of his army south of the river, and although he continued to plan for a siege and the capture of Richmond, he lost the strategic initiative and never regained it. -
Hampton Roads
The most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War. There was no victor. It ended on March 9th. -
Shiloh
Confederate generals launched a surprise attack on Ulysses S. Grant's forces in southwestern Tennessee. After initial successes, the Confederates were unable to hold their positions and were forced back, resulting in a Union victory. The battle ended on April 7, 1862. -
Second Bull Run.
The second battle of Bull Run was a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run fought in 1861 on the same ground. It had little strategic outcome, but like the first it was a smashing tactical victory for the Confederates and caused a rapid drop in Union morale. Union casualties were about 10,000 killed and wounded out of 62,000 engaged; the Confederates lost about 1,300 killed and 7,000 wounded out of 50,000. It ended on August 30, 1962. -
Antietam
Considered a union victory. It was the bloodiest single day in American history, over 22,000 causalities. victory provided Abraham Lincoln the political cover he needed to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. Ended on September 18th. -
Chancellorsville
It was Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory during the American Civil War. Thomas Stonewall Jackson, one of his most trusted generals was killed by friendly fire during the battle. After his victory, Lee possessed the strategic initiative, which would lead him to Gettysburg. Ended on May 6th. -
Gettysburg
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee concentrated his army around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, upon the approach of Union Gen. George G. Meade’s forces. On July 1, Confederates drove Union defenders through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill. The next day Lee struck the flanks of the Union line resulting in severe fighting.That afternoon, after a massive artillery bombardment, Lee attacked the Union center and was repulsed with heavy losses. Lee's second invasion of the North had failed. -
Chickamauga
The confederates advanced when the union was shifting troops, the rebels burst through a gap in the federal lines and sent the union troops into a chaotic retreat to Chattanooga. Ten confederate generals had been killed or wounded, including John Bell Hood. The south won. It ended on September 20th. -
Gettysburg Address
The croud listened to Everett for two hour befor President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most memorable speeches in American history that took under three minutes. -
Petersburg Campaign
The Petersburg Campaign was a series of battles around Petersburg, Virginia, fought from June 9, 1864, to March 25, 1865. After nearly ten months of siege, the loss at Fort Stedman was a devastating blow for Lee's army, setting up the Confederate defeat at Five Forks on April 1, the Union breakthrough at Petersburg on April 2, the surrender of the city of Petersburg at dawn on April 3, and Richmond that same evening. The campaign ended on March 25, 1965. -
Mobile Bay
By winning the naval battle Admiral David Farragut of the union succeded in sealing off the port from the confederates. It was protected by mines, Fort Morgan, and the confederate army from Tennessee. When Tennessee surrendered the bay was in Union hands. When Fort Morgan surrendered on August 23rd, the sealed the gulf from futher blockade running. -
Sherman's March
Sherman's March was conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Gen, Sherman of the Union Army. His forces destroyed military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property and disrupted the South's economy and its transportation networks. Sherman's bold move of operating deep within enemy territory and without supply lines is considered to be revolutionary in the annals of war. -
Appomattox
The american civil war ended when General Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in the Appomattox Court House in the state of Virginia. Lee had abandoned his army. Lee was forced to surrender, finally ending four years of war. -
Lincoln's Assassination
The assassination of President Lincoln took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, as the American Civil War was ending. John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot Abraham Lincoln at the Ford's Theater in Washington DC, also shot and killed the vice president and the secretary of state after he shot Lincoln. President Lincoln died at 7:22 the following morning.
