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Fort Sumpter
South Carolina, demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor Anderson refused. On April 12, Confederate batteries fired on the fort. At 2:30 pm, April 13, Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter, evacuating the garrison on the following day. it was a confederate victory -
Battle Of Bull Run
Known as First Battle of Manassas, it was the First major battle fought in the American Civil warOn July 16, 1861, the untried Union army under Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run beyond Centreville -
Battle Of Hampton Roads
march 9was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies. It was fought over two days, March 8–9, 1862, in Hampton Roads, a roadstead in Virginia where the Elizabeth and Nansemond Rivers meet the James River just before it enters Chesapeake Bay. -
battle of shiloh
because of the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson, the Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, had to fall back, giving up Kentucky and most of the West and Middle Tennessee. the confederates continued to fall back makeing it was a Union victory. -
Battle OF Bull Run 2
also known as the First Battle of Manassas and the most significant Confederate victories of the American Civil War The second battle of Bull Run was started on juliy 26 1862 was a quick war and a Union victory!Both sides were sobered by the violence and casualties of the battle, and they realized that the war would potentially be much longer and bloodier than they had originally anticipated. -
Battle of Antietam
near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties. Forceing the confederate army to retreat back across the potomac river. lincoln saw the signigicance and issude the Emancipation Proclimation -
Battle of Fedricksburg
a confederate victory by general burnside -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation on january 1 it stated that "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." -
Battle Of Chancellorsville
Early in Fredericksburg and marched with the rest of the army to confront the Federals. As Hooker’s army moved toward Fredericksburg on the Orange Turnpike, they encountered increasing Confederate resistance. Hearing reports of overwhelming Confederate force, Hooker ordered his army to suspend the advance and to concentrate again at Chancellorsville. this battle was considered Lee's great victory -
Siege Of Vicksburg
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. Union Victory! -
Battle Of Gettysburg
more men actually fought and more men died than in any other battle before or since on North American soil.
Union was saved The Confederate army that staggered back from the fight at Gettysburg was physically ehausted -
Siege of atlanta
a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Continuing their summer campaign to seize the important rail and supply center of Atlanta, Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John B. Hood. it was a Military division of tennessee and was a union victory -
Surrender At Appomattox
Lee’s army was surrounded on three sides. Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9. This was the final engagement of the war in Virginia. and is a union victory -
assasination of abraham lincoln
Shortly after 10:pm April 14 1865 John Wilkes Booth entered a theater (presidential box), shot, and killed Lincoln. He ran and onto the stage and out the back window and got away. -
Ratification of the 13th amendment
to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.
