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Election of Lincoln
Lincoln was elected. Lincoln is a Republican. Favored a strong federal government with limited state governments. Lincoln got rid of slavery. -
TX secedes from the Union
Texas secedes from the union. Texas then soon joins the confederation. Sam houston did not want to secede from the U.S. There is 11 states with the confederates. -
Houston kicked out of office
Houston was kicked out of office. He was kicked out of office because he did not want to lose to the U.S. Sam houston was still a slave owner. Sam really left office he did not get kicked out. -
battle at fort sumter
The confederates attacked the union. Nobody was killed. The union soon then surenders. They surender because they ran out of supplies and ammunition. -
battle of galveston
The union set up a blockade so that the confederates would give up the island. The union's blockade stopped all supply and trade. The union won for a year and then surrendered the island. The confederates soon then retook the island from the union. -
battle of gettysburg
On July 1, early Union success faltered as Confederates pushed back against the Iron Brigade and exploited a weak Federal line at Barlow’s Knoll. The following day saw Lee strike the Union flanks, leading to heavy battle at Devil's Den, Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Peach Orchard, Culp’s Hill and East Cemetery Hill. The union was crushed by Robert E Lee's trained army of men. -
Battle of sabine's pass
As the gunboats approached Fort Griffin, they came under accurate fire from six cannons. The Confederate gunners at Fort Griffin had been sent there as a punishment. Fort Griffin’s small force of 44 men, under command of Lt. Richard W. Dowling, forced the Union flotilla to retreat and captured the gunboat Clifton and about 200 prisoners. -
Red river campaign
President Abraham Lincoln authorized a campaign against Shreveport, Louisiana, then the temporary capital of Confederate Louisiana. It was a major supply depot and a gateway to Texas. The Union forces of 12,000 had 700 men killed or wounded and 1,500 taken prisoner; 20 Union artillery pieces and 200 wagons were captured, and almost 1,000 horses and mules were lost. The Confederate army of 8,800 had 1,000 killed or wounded. The union won. -
end of civil war
The union won the war against the confederates. Though the number of killed and wounded in the Civil War is not known precisely, most sources agree that the total number killed was between 640,000 and 700,000, broken down with over 360,000 Union soldiers and over 260,000 Confederate soldiers.There were many causes of the civil war, including differences between northern and southern states on the idea of slavery, as well as trade, tariffs, and states rights. -
battle of palito ranch
In spite of this agreement, Col. Theodore H. Barrett, commanding forces at Brazos Santiago, Texas, dispatched an expedition, composed of 250 men of the 62nd U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment and 50 men of the 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. David Branson, to the mainland, on May 11, 1865, to attack reported Rebel outposts and camps. A few miles forward, they became involved in a sharp firefight. After the fighting stopped, Barrett led his force back to a bluff at Tulosa on -
juneteenth
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation - which had become official January 1, 1863. The union had just now won and got ride slavery. -
Reconstruction ends
Immediately after the presidential election of 1876, it became clear that the outcome of the race hinged largely on disputed returns from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina–the only three states in the South with Reconstruction-era Republican governments still in power. As a bipartisan congressional commission debated over the outcome early in 1877, allies of the Republican Party candidate Rutherford Hayes met in secret with moderate southern Democrats in order to negotiate acceptance of Haye
