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Fort Sumter
It happend through the 12-14 in Charleston County, The US leader was Robert Anderson the CS leader was Beauregard. Confederates won. Garrison commander Anderson refused to surrender at Fort Sumter. Regiments, 580 total, US 80, CS 500. -
Battle of Bull Run (1st)
The Battle of Bull Run was a Confederate victory led by Beaurgard. The war led to army re-organization. The Battle was also known as, First Battle of Manassas. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. It happended in the state of Virginia. The Norths leader was McDowell. -
Battle of Hampton Roads
The battle lasted through the 8th-9th. It was fought at the Hampton Roads in Virginia. It was a Union victory, the North was led by Worden and the South by Buchanan. The U.S. had 4 war ships and the CS had 1 warship. -
Battle of Shilo
Happend through the 6th through 7th. In Tennesee it was a Union victory. North led by Grant, South by Johnston. Johnston was killed and the Tennesee River was controlled by the Union. -
Battle of Bull Run (2nd)
It happend in the state of Virginia. It lasted 2 days the 29th through the 30th. The North leader was Pope the Souths leader was Jackson. It was a Confederate victory. The war led to regain most of Virginia. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil.The Union won the battle. After pursuing Confederate General Robert E. Lee into Maryland, General George B. McClellan, launched attacks on Lee's army, in defensive positions behind Antietam Creek. Happened in the state of Maryland. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
It happend in Virginia. The Norths leader was Burnside, the South's was Lee. It was a Confederate victory, it stopped the final Union dowance of 1862. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It was issued on January 1, 1863 but announced on September 22. The Proclamation declared "that all people held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free. It only applied to the states that had secceded from the Union. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Proclamation. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
It lasted through the 4th. It was in the state of Virginia, the leader for the North was Hooker, and the South was Lee. It was a Confederate victory, Lee soundly beat Union. Jackson died. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle was in the state of Pennsivania. It was a Union victory, the North was led by Mede and the South was led by Lee. It lasted through the 1st of July through the 3rd of July. The war stopped the South from invading ever again. Their was over 43,000 casualties. -
Siege of Vicksburg
It was a Union victory. The North led by Grant, and the South by Pemberton. It took place in Warren County, It went through May 18th through July 4. -
Siege of Atlanta
Union, General William T. Sherman had more then 100,000 troops under his command. It was Sherman vs. Johnston in Tennessee. Shermans campaign against a Confederate force of some 65,000 under General Joseph E. Johnston. It was supposed to end the war, Sherman vs. Johnston. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Lee wanted to keep on fighting but he couldnt without loosing his army. The South needed to surrender. The North won. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was attending a preformence of the comedy, Are American Cousin, while at the show he was shot in the head. His wife was at the show with him Mary Todd Lincoln, a 28 year old officer, named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancee, Clara Harris. The assasins name was John Wilkes Booth, after he murderd Lincoln, he dropped the pistol and waved a dagger. Rathbone pushed the murderer, off the blacony but managed to get away. It happened in the state of Virginia. -
Ratification of the 13th Amendment
It officialy ended the institution of slavery, is ratified. The ratification came 8 months after the war was over. It represented the culmination of the struggle against slavery. When the war began some in the North were against fighting what they saw as a crusade to end slavery.
