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Electon of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected as our nations sixteenth president and was the first Republican president of the country. He started this party for mainly those who opposed slavery in the territories of the United States. This electon made many Southerens mad and resulted in the secession of six states following his inauguration. -
Southern Secession
Jefferson Davis wsa a veteran of the Black Hawk and Mexican-American Wars and began his term as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama. This position was supposed to hold until real elections could be arranged. Fourtnately he was the first and last elected president of the Southern Confederate States. -
Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861 in Fort Sumter, South Carolina the Southern Confederate troops first fired and that marked the offical start of the United States Civil War of the Northern Abolistionists against the Southern Confederates. Strong additudes develop in the colonies creating more tension against the central government. -
Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was the first hardcore battle in Tennessee with the Southern states Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston. As a veteran of the Texas War of Independence and the War with Mexico he was thought to be the best the South has ever had. On the first day of battle however, he was shot down and killed by the Northern troops. This Union victory guaranteed a long standing career for the Unions General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Brandy Battle
With Robert E. Lee trying keep his plans a secret from the Union army he ordered his Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart to put forward a cavalry raid. The Union had some of the churches cavalry forces to help cross the Rapidan River to attack Confederate General J.E.B. The Stuart's cavalry soon learned that Lee's was moving into the Shenandoah Valley. Upon the arrival of the Confederate starts the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War and the start of the Gettysburg Campaign. -
Siege of Knoxville, Tennessee.
From November 27 to December 3, 1863 Confederate troops who were under the command of General James Longstreet were to take on the city of Knoxville. After Longstreet finally attacks on November 30, he is shown many losses. The arrival of Union troops has him leave Greeneville, Tennessee. -
Capture of the Meridian
The Union Capture and the Occupation of Meridian, Mississippi. Union forces under the command of William T. Sherman the troops enter the city of Meridian, Mississippi. The capture of this big southern town really effects the efforts of Confederate commanders to keep the armies in the deep south, Georgia and west of the Mississippi River. -
Battle of Franklin
The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee happened after a month of raiding Sherman's supply lines and attacking Union outposts. John Bell Hood's army confronted the Union troops from General John Schofield's command. A massacre on the Federal line meets with disaster. Hood's forces is too heavy resulting in the loss of six of his generals. -
Battle of Appomattox Court House and Surrender
Battle of Appomattox Court House and Surrender happened at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia on an early morning after the attempt to distroy the Union forces by blocking the route west to Danville, Virginia. Lee seeked an audience with the General Grant to discuss terms. Lee signs the document of surrendener that afternoon of April 12 and the Army of Northern Virginia is disbanded. -
End of Cvil War
On May 26, 1865 General Simon Bolivar Buckner lead his Confederate troops into surrender to the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. Then the Southern Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith signed the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators on June 2, 1865. The Civil War officially ends bringing back together the nation as a whole.
