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South starts secession
South Carolina secession started after Lincoln was elected president. Lincoln did not think this was legal. -
Fort Sumter
First shots of the civil war were fired.. -
Battle of bull run
It was the first bloody battle. The South won the battle and thought they had won, but really the north just was restrategizing -
Gettysburg
Battle with the largest number of casualties in the civil war. Considered the turning point of the war -
Wars End
Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House. The last battle of the American Civil War was the Battle of Palmito Ranch in Texas on May 12 and 13. The last significant Confederate active force to surrender was the Confederate allied Cherokee Brig. Gen. Stand Watie and his Indian soldiers on June 23. The last Confederate surrender, however occurred on November 6, 1865, when the Confederate warship CSS Shenandoah -
Lincolns assasination
took place on Good Friday,[1] April 14, 1865, as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. The assassination occurred five days after the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated,[2] though an unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson thirty years before in 1835. The assassination was planned and ca