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Fort Sumter
Website the campaign was Operations in Charleston Harbor. It was located in Charleston County, South Carolina. The results were an Confederate victory. The commander for the Union was Robert Anderson and for the south it was P.G.T. Beauregard. On April 10, 1861, Brig. Gen. Beauregard demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Garrison commander Anderson refused. he surrendered on the 13th. -
Battle of Bull Run (1st)
First bull runThe location was on Fairfox county. It is also called Mamassas. The victor of this battle was the Confederates. The commander for the Union was Irvin Mcdowell. For the confedaerte it was "stonewall" Jackson and General Beauregard.On the 21st, McDowell crossed at Sudley Ford and attacked the Confederate left flank on Matthews Hill. Late in the afternoon, Confederate reinforcements extended and broke the Union right flank. This was part of the Manassas campaign. -
Battle Hampton Roads
Website The battle lasted until the 9th. It was in Hampton Roads, Virginia. The batlle was inconclusive. A commander for the Union was John Worden and for the confederates it was Franklin Buchanan and Lt. Catesby R. Jones. On March 8, 1862 the Confederate ironclad Virginia steamed into Hampton Roads. On March 9, the Union ironclad Monitor having fortuitously arrived to do battle, initiated the first engagement of ironclads in history. -
Battle of Shiloh
Website The battle lasted until the 7th. The battle was located in Shiloh, Tennessee in Hardin County, Tennessee. Victory for the union forces. A commander for the union Ulysses S. Grant. For the confederates it is General P.G.T. Beauregard. Confederate forces led by General Johnston attacked Union General Grant's army at Pittsburg Landing. The Union forces were not prepared but they still managed to hold. -
Battle of Bull Run (2nd)
website i usedThe battle lasted until the 30th. Manassas in Virginia. It was part of the Peninsular Campaign. The Confederates won this battle. Commander of the Union was John Pope. For confederates it was Gen. Robert E. Lee and Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson. Jackson ordered an attack on a Federal column that was passing across his front on the Warrenton Turnpike on August 28. On August 29, Pope launched a series of assaults against Jackson’s position along an unfinished railroad grade. -
Battle of Antietam
BAttle of antietamThe battle last until the 18th. Another name is Sarpsburg. it was located in Sarpsburg, Maryland. The Union came up victories and killed the most people. For the union commander it was Major General George B. McClellan. for the south it was General Robert E. Lee. The Battle of Antietam forced the Confederate Army to retreat back across the Potomac River. President Lincoln saw the significance of this and issued the famous Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
WebsiteIt lasted throught the 15th. It was fought in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was a Confederate victory. A commander for the Union was Ambrose E. Burnside and for the confederates it was Robert E. Lee. On November 14, Burnside, sent a corps to occupy Falmouth near Fredericksburg. On December 15, Burnside called off the offensive and recrossed the river, ending the campaign. Estimated Casualties: 17,929 total. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Website It was introduced on september 22, 1862. On September 22, 1862 a proclamation
was issued by the President of the United States. On the 1st day of January, 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State that is rebelling to the United Staes may be foreever free. Abe says "I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence." The battle of Antietam is what made Abe Lincoln decide to make this. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
websiteLasted until the 6 of May. It was near Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Confederate victory. Commander for the Union is Joseph Hooker. For the South it was Robert E. Lee and Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson. Estimated Casualties: 24,000 total (US 14,000; CS 10,000)
The Federals concentrated near Chancellorsville on April 30 and May 1. Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded. -
Siege of Vicksburg
Website It lasted through July 4th. General Grant and his Tennesse army drove Confederate forces into the town of Vicksburg,Mississippi and which that resulted in a Union Victory. The Amry of Vicksburg commander was John C. Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. It was a Union victory. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Website The battle lasted until the 3rd. It was around the small market town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Union won this battle. A commander for the Union was George G. Meade. For the Confederates it was Robert E. Lee.General Lee received approval from his government to invade the north. The 95,000-strong Federal Army of the Potomac, under General Hooker, was initially uncertain of Lee's intentions. -
Siege of Atlanta
Website It lasted until August 31. The siege was in Atlanta, Georgia. It was a Union Victory. A commander for the Union was Union General William T. Sherman and for the confederates it was General Joseph E. Johnston. Union General William T. Sherman kicked off the massive Atlanta campaign from Chattanooga Tennessee on May 5, 1864. This was made to end the war. Johnston began one of the great retreats in history. -
Ratification of the 13th Amendment
Website The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress. With the 13th amendment, the United States found a final solution to the issue of slavery. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
WebsiteGeneral Robert E. Lee is pushed back so far that and is low on supplies and does not want to lose any more American lives so he surrender's to General Grant to end the Civil War and finally Abraham Lincoln has brought the north and the south back together. Union victory. It was Grant and Lee as the commanders of this battle/surrender. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Assassination of abeHe was in Ford's theater.The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, dropped the pistol and waved a dagger. Booth leapt from the balcony and caught the spur of his left boot on a flag draped over the rail, and shattered a bone in his leg on landing. Though injured, he rushed out the back door, and disappeared into the night on horseback. The bullet had entered through Lincoln's left ear and lodged behind his right eye.Nine hours later, at 7:22 AM on April 15th, Lincoln died.
