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Siege of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was where the Southern states seceded but the Union refused to give up Fort Sumter, which was in the South. This led to the South attacking Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, in the early morning. By the afternoon the commander, Major Robert Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter. The Significance was it was the first battle of the Civil War and it helped both sides relize it was going to be a long war, Battle of Bull Run proved this theory. -
Battle of Bull Run
The BoBR was where G. Irvin McDowell (U) marched from D.C. to Bull Run Creek. The C army under G. Pierre Beauregard defended the railroad at Manassas, West of the creek. On July 17, McDowell sent a small force across Bull Run to test the Confederates. After that, McDowell attacked the North end on the 21st. The fight lasted all day with the Union winning in the morning, but then General "Stonewall" Jackson won in the end. The significance was the 2 sides figured out it was going to be a long war -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was where a Union soldier found Confederate battle plans and gave them to G. George McClellan. McClellan was slow to act so for Lee it was the high point of their Northern raid. It was the worst 1 day raid the U.S military history. The significance was that the battle led to Abraham Lincoln passing the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was where Abraham Lincoln passed a law on 1/1/1863 saying that all slaves in the North and South were free forever. It did not actually free any slaves, but it said that any runaway slaves were free to join the Union army. The Significance was it was an important point in the war where it went from keeping the Union together to freeing slaves. -
Battle of Getysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was a 3-day battle. The 1st day the Confederates clashed with the Union army while advancing to their next point and drove the Union to flee to a hill. The 2nd day was worse, the Cs attacked the U on both sides and on the 3rd day the C attacked the U in the middle. The U won in the end. The significance was that after that battle the south never tried to invade the north for the rest of the Civil War. -
General Sherman's March to the Sea
From November 15 to December 21, 1864, G. William Sherman led 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The Union army destroyed anything that would help the Confederates at all. They left families with nothing left because they wanted them to be scared of the Union army. This was part of the Total War plan. The significance was that it left the South with not a lot of supplies and it left families there scared of the Union wich led to overall suffering. -
Lee's Surrender at Appomattox Court
On April 9, 1865, near the Appottomax Courthouse in Virginia Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Earlier that week Lee abandoned Richmond, the Confederate capital and Pettysburg. He rallied his worn down troops and fought the battle. It lasted only a few hours before he surrendered. The significance was it brought the 4 year long Civil war to an End