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South Carolina secedes
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lincoln becomes president
Abraham Lincoln's Inauguration. Monday, March 4, 1861, was a big day for Abraham Lincoln and for America. That morning, he and outgoing President James Buchanan left the Willard Hotel, which is nearby the White House, in a horse-drawn carriage bound for the Capitol. -
fort sumter attacked
On April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. -
1st bull run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces), was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas, not far from Washington, D.C. -
emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862. It stipulated that if the Southern states did not cease their rebellion by January 1st, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect. -
Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack
, also called Battle of Hampton Roads, (March 9, 1862), in the American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River, notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare. -
Robert E. Lee takes command of Confederate Troops
June 1862/2012: Civil War Events Then & Now. June 1862 & 2012. Then: On June 1, Gen Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate army that had been pushed back to Richmond during the Peninsula Campaign. -
2nd bull run
Aug 28, - When analyzing the 1862 summer campaign, Civil War historians have ... Yet the Second Battle of Bull Run, otherwise known as the Second Battle of ... first of all, that there was a Second Manassas battle to begin with, and ... -
Antietam
Antietam 5. The Army of the Potomac, under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee's forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862. -
George McClellan named commander of union troops
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Battle of Shiloh
The two day battle at Shiloh produced more than 23,000 casualties -
Chanellorsville
The Civil War Trust's Battle of Chancellorsville page includes history articles, battle ... Lee's triumph on May 2, 1863 did not end the Battle of Chancellorsville. -
General Stonewall Jackson killed
The Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by his own men during a major Civil War battle, but it wasn't his wounds that killed him eight days later. How exactly did the commander die? .... Lee and Jackson's most famous victory took place near a crossroads at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia ... -
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. -
gettysburg
This most famous and most important Civil War Battle occurred over three hot summer days, July 1 to July 3, 1863, around the small market town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It began as a skirmish but by its end involved 160,000 Americans. -
54th Massachusetts
The 54th Massachusetts at the Second Battle of Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863 .... The regiment's first battlefield action took place in a skirmish -
Gettysburg Address
- Great Speeches Collection: Abraham Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address. On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln went to the battlefield to dedicate it as a National Cemetery.
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AndersonVille
The first prisoners were brought to Andersonville in late February 1864. During the next few months, approximately 400 more arrived each day. -
Fort Pillow
The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. -
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Shermans March
Sherman's March To The Sea summary: Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman taking place from November 15, 1864 to December 21, 1864. which followed the successful Atlanta Campaign.
