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Fort Sumter
On an island in the Harbor of Charleston, South Carolina the beggining of the civil war started with Robert Anderson (leader of the confederacy) comand for his army to fire at the fort. Luckily no one was killed.This wasn't a real battle, at the beggining the north did not want to fight but this declared the beggining of war. -
Battle of Bull Run (1st)
The leading generals were Waxing and Beauregard, and the confederates were on the retreat. General Stonewall Jackson stood his brigade through and ended up winning for the confederacy when General Johnston helped them out. -
Battle of Shiloh
In Pittsburg, Tennessee. Fought by General Ulysses Grant of the Union, and General Johnston Confederacy. Johnston was killed and the confederates were surrounding them, but Grant showed up with reinforcements and drove them back, giving them control of the Tennessee River. The battle lasted 2 days and the Union won. -
Battle of Bull Run (2nd)
After the first bull run, the Northern general Pope decided to combine armies with another general. Ended August 30 in Manassass. -
Battle of Antietam
Near Sharpsburg, Maryland, general McClellan attacked and drove back General Lee, but did not pursue after bloody battle and McClellan was fired after the battle. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
In Fredericksburg, Virginia, Union General Burnside crossed the Potomac River to attack the entrenched confederacy. After five days the union recrossed the Potomac and gave up due to staggering failure. Ended December 15. -
Emancipation Proclamation
This proclamation was issued three years in the civil war by president Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Proclamation said to free all the slaves held by the south, but it did not frre slaves in the boarder states. Thanks to this proclamation now black mens were accepted to fight in the Union trrops. -
Battle of Hampton Roads
Ended on March 9. Ironclads, or iron boats, decided to take out the wooden naval blockade commanded by Captain Marshton. The Merriac, a Union IronClad showed up and pushed back the Confederacy, and the Confederacy retreated. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
General Hooker versus Lee in Chancelorsville, VA. The Union stopped in Chancerlorsville due to increasing large confederate force in a defensive position. Ended May 6. -
Siege of Vicksburg
With general Ulysses S. Grant leading the north and Pemberton leading the south this battle lasted 2 month, till July 4 1863. At the end it was a Union win. Because they won the union got control of the Mississippi river and the south was finally split in two. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The bloodiest battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Maede versus Lee. General Pickett (Confederacy) charged in and his troops gained heavy losses. Lee retreated. -
Siege of Atlanta
This battle took place in Georgia on the 16 of July 1864 it lasted till Sptember 2 of the same year.General William Tecumseh was the leader of the nothern army and Sherman hood took the lead in the south.This battle lasted several month but in the end it was a union victory. -
Ratification of the 13 Amendment
The Ratification of the 13 Amendment was proposed on January 31st 1865. By the end of the year 27 states includind 8 in the south had ratified the amendment. Slavery was officialy banned -
Surrender at Appomattox Cout House
Lee wanted to keep on fighting but he knew he couldn't, not without loosing the rest of his army anyway. So it was time to surrender for the south. This surrender took place at Appomatox Court House in a small Virginian town with Lee surendering to Grant. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's theater at 10:15 P.M. during the play "Our American Cousin"
