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THe attack on Fort sumpter
Abraham Lincoln's administration would not surrender the fort to the Confederates, Jefferson Davis decided to take action. Davis hoped that in seizing command of Fort Sumter he could drive the northerners out of the South and help South Carolina secede to the Confederate States of America. -
Anaconda Plan
The anaconda plan is where the army sourrounded the other armies -
Bull Run
It was the first real major conflict of the American Civil War. A Union army, commanded by General McDowell, fought 33,000 Confederates under General Beauregard. -
The battel of Shiloh
Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant, including William T. Sherman, camped on the Tennessee River at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. (near Shiloh Church), in preparation for an offensive. Confederate forces under A.S. Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard attacked, surprising the Union troops and forcing their retreat, though Johnston was mortally wounded. -
Antietam
A creek of north-central Maryland emptying into the Potomac River. The bloody and inconclusive Civil War Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg, as it is often called in the South) was fought along its banks -
Emancipation proclamation
This document was read by Abraham Lincoln it stated that slaves were free. -
Chanclersville
Confederate victory by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in May 1863, before the latter's mortal wounding by his own side (possibly deliberate). -
Fredericksburg
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Vickburg
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Gettysburg
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Sherman’s March
Sherman's march was when general sherman marched his armies to the sea and got into a battel and lost his soldiers. -
appomattox courthouse