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Attack on Fort Sumter
The battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army that stated the American Civil War. -
Battle of Hampton Roads
Battle of Hampton Roads summary. The battle of Hampton Roads, Aka the battle of the Ironclads (Monitor and Merrimack), was fought March 8-9, 1862 near Hampton Roads, Virginia. it is the most famous naval battle of the American Civil War, pitting the nation's first ironclad ships against each other. -
Battle of Antietam
The battle of Antietam also know as the Battle of Sharpsburg particularly in the South, was the fought on September 17,1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. -
Battle of Stones River
The Battle of Stones River or second Battle of Murfreesboro, was fought from December 31,1862,to January 2,1863, in middle Tennessee, as the culmination of the Stones River campaign in the Western Theater of the American Civil War -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln-Mimi Biography (TV-14,3:54) Abraham Lincoln grew up in a log cabin in rural Kentucky and went on to become the 6th president of Untied States. On January 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery. He was assassinated on April 15,1865. -
Battle of Vicksburg
In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
Sherman Begins March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea, more formally known as the Savannah Campaign, was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
Appomattox Courthouse
On April 9, 1865, near Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Days earlier, Lee had abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond and the city of Petersburg; his goal was to rally the remnants of his beleaguered troops. -
Lincoln Assassinated
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington.
