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Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln Election
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency -
Confederacy of the United States is formed
Formed in February 1861, the Confederate States of America was a republic composed of eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union in order to preserve slavery, states’ rights, and political liberty for whites. -
Fort Henry
Union Victory
By February 1862, Fort Henry, a Confederate earthen fort on the Tennessee River with outdated guns, was partially inundated and the river threatened to flood the rest. On February 4-5, Brig. Gen. U.S. Grant landed his divisions in two different locations, one on the east bank of the Tennessee River -
Battle of Fort Donelson
February 11-16, 1862
After capturing Fort Henry on February 6, 1862, Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant advanced cross-country to invest Fort Donelson.
Union victory. -
Battle of Shiloh
April 6th-7th
Union Victory -
Battle of Antieam
September 16 - 18, 1862
Washington County, Maryland -
Battle of Fredericksburg
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA
December 11th- 15th 1862
Confederate Victory -
Emancipation Proclamtion
Wahington D.C. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
April 12, Confederate batteries opened fire on the fort. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA
April 30th - May 6th 1862
Confederate victory -
Battle of Vicksburg
May 18th - July 4th 1863
Union Victory -
Fort Wagner Morris
July 18th to September 7th
South Carolina -
Battle of Chickamauga
CATOOSA COUNTY AND WALKER COUNTY , GEORGIA
September 18th- 20th 1863. Confederate Victory -
Gettysburg Address
Ever since Lincoln wrote it in 1864, this version has been the most often reproduced, notably on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. -
Battle of Chattanooga
November 23rd-25th 1863
Union Victory -
Battle of Spotsylvania
May 8th- 21st 1864
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Battle of Cold Harbor
Confederate Victory. -
Abraham Lincoln Re-Election
On this day in 1864, Northern voters overwhelmingly endorse the leadership and policies of President Abraham Lincoln when they elect him to a second term. With his re-election, any hope for a negotiated settlement with the Confederacy vanished -
Battle of Sailor's Creek
AMELIA COUNTY, PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, AND NOTTOWAY COUNTY , VIRGINIA
Union Victory -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Robert E. Lee surrenders at the court practically ending the war. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.