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Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States over a deep divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican that won the presidency. He had only received 40% of the popular vote but he defeated the 3 other candidates which are -
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Attack on Fort Sumter
The election of president Abraham Lincoln had brought to head the issue of slavery in the United States. Seven southern states "seceded" from the Union rather than continuing with negotiation and compromise with a government they felt as if they were being hostile to their rights as states. By February 1861 six more states had joined the new Confederate States of America. With their secession declarations came the demands that all United States "property be turned over to those states" -
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Battle of Hampton Roads
Battle of Hampton Roads was part of a Confederate effort to break the Union blockade of Southern ports including Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia that had been force at the start of the war. Even though the battle itself was indecisive, it began a new era in naval warfare. -
Battle of Antietam
The battle of Antietam was also known as the battle of Sharpsburg.
It resulted as the not bloodiest day of the American Civil War but as the bloodiest single day in all of the American Civil War. They fought between the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek. The Union was Major General George B. McClellan and the Confederate was General Robert E. Lee. -
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Battle of Stones River
President Abraham Lincoln was desperate for a military victory. His armies were "stalled" and the horrible defeat at Fredericksburg spread a "pall" of defeat across the nation. "There was also the Emancipation Proclamation to consider. The nation needed a victory to bolster morale and support the proclamation when it went into effect on January 1, 1863.". -
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Battle of Vicksburg
Union forces "waged" a campaign to take the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi which was on the east bank of the Mississippi River. It was halfway between Memphis to the northland New Orleans to the south. The capture of Vicksburg divided the Confederacy and proved "the military genius of Union General Ulysses S. Grant". -
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Battle of Gettysburg
This battle was considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville. General Robert E. Lee had marched his army of Northern Virginia to Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1 the advancing Confederates contend with the Union's Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade a the crossroads of Gettysburg. "On July 3, Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000 troops on the enemy’s center at Cemetery Ridge." -
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Sherman Begins March to the Sea
The army had begun, burning the industrial section of Atlanta before leaving. One witness said "immense and raging fires lighting up whole heavens… huge waves of fire roll up into the sky; presently the skeleton of great warehouses stand out in relief against sheets of roaring, blazing, furious flames.” . Then Sherman's famous destruction of Georgia had started. It was also more formally known as the Savannah Campaign -
Appomattox Courthouse
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant days earlier. Lee had left the Confederate capital of Richmond and the city of Petersburg. His goal was to regroup "the remnants of his beleaguered troops, meet Confederate reinforcements in North Carolina and resume fighting". The result of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse which only lasted for a few hours, effectively had brought the four-year Civil War to an end. -
Linclon Assassinated
A famous actor John Wilkes Booth and Confederate sympathizer killed Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. .
