Civil War

By brooklynbrady

  • 1861 attack on fort sumter

  • may 1861 upper south rejoins confederacy

  • The United States Sanitary Commision was created

  • McDowell attacked

  • grant advanced south along tennessee river

  • union gunboats pounded fort henry into surrender

  • Johnstons forces surprised Grants troops & fighting spreat 6 miles long

  • Lee retreated South territiories

  • naval sqaudron fought past two forts to force surrender of new orleans

  • Confederate congress passed the draft law requiring at least three years of military service for all white men from ages eighteen to thirty-five

  • Because of the war stores were selling bags of salt that were origanlly two dollars for sixty dollars.

  • union navy seized memphis tennessee

  • United States Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act with little to no resistance.

  • southerners had created the strange looking vessel by bolting iron plates to an old wooden steamship called merrimeck

  • president lincoln ordered his troops to make a similar vessel called the monitor.

  • late june of 1862 combined forces attacked mcglellans larger army in encounters called

  • Lee's army bypassed the Union and slipped into western Maryland.

  • The two armies met at Antietam Creek, Lee had 40,000 troops and McClellan had over 75,000 troops

  • Abe Lincoln freed the rebellion slaves that were in the area of him.

  • Abe Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation

  • The measure allowed the wealthy people to buy their way out of required military service

  • Union Blockage, and food riots erupted in southern cities. Nearly 1,000 women looted bakeries in Richmond.

  • In New York City mobs of white people vented their rage at the draft for the Civil War

  • As the war continues African Americans soliders earn less then what the white soliders are earning.

  • Pope ordered 62,000 soliders to smash Jackson also at the time Lee attacked Jackson with the main body of the Confederate Army

  • Combined forces attacked McClellan's larger arm in encounters called "Seven Days Battle" Sending Union, McClellan, to retreat.

  • The fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry led the attack on a fort.

  • Abraham Lincoln dies, due to being shot

  • Conderate forces surrender 50,000 survivors return, over 60,000 died in battle, double of that died from infection and disease.

  • Nearly 180,000 African Americans were enlisted into the Union Army.

  • Slavery is abolished