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election of lincon
The polls had barely closed on the 1858 election when Jeriah Bonham wrote an editorial for the Illinois Gazette predicting the candidates for the 1860 presidential nomination
Abraham Lincoln nurtured his 1860 presidential candidacy while politely denigrating it. During 1859, Mr. Lincoln was simply one of many Republicans who were mentioned as a possible alternative to the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination he was a big part of abolishing slavery -
Texas secedes from union
On this day in 1861, Texas becomes the seventh state to secede from the Union when a state convention votes 166 to 8 in favor of the measure.The Texans who voted to leave the Union did so over the objections of their governor, Sam Houston. A staunch Unionist, Houston's election in 1859 as governor seemed to indicate that Texas did not share the rising secessionist sentiments of the other Southern states. -
houston kicked out of office
General Sam Houston was born on March 2, 1793 in Tennessee. When he was sixteen, he ran away from home and grew up with the Cherokee Indians.Houston studied law and became a lawyer. Then he got into politics. In 1823, he went to Washington as a Congressman representing Tennessee and was re-elected in 1825. During the next election in 1827, he was elected governor of Tennesseewhen Texas did secede, Houston was thrown out of office because he refused to pledge allegence to the Confederate States o -
battle at fort sumter
On April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. -
Battle of Galveston
In the fall of 1862, Union William B. Renshaw sailed into Galveston harbor and demanded the surrender of the island city.on New Year's Day, 1863, the Confederate Cottonclads entered the west end of Galveston harbor. Their first target was the Union's Harriet Lane.After a brief encounter and some maneuvering, the tide of battle foretold an almost certain Union victory.their victory restored control of Galveston to the Confederacy,for the rest of the war -
Battle of Gettysburg
Having concentrated his army around the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Gen. Robert Lee awaited the approach of Union Gen. George Meade’s forces. On July 1, 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 DenSoutherners captured Devil’s Den and the Peach Orchard, but ultimately failed to dislodge the Union defenders -
Battle of sabine pass
The First Battle of Sabine Pass or the Bombardment of Fort Sabine was a naval and land battle during the American Civil War in Sabine Pass, Texas. In addition to strengthening the Union naval blockade of the Texas coastline, it was also intended to open the way for a possible amphibious assault on the Confederate town of Sabine Pass. -
Red river campaign
At the time of the Red River Campaign in April 1864, the outcome of the Civil War appeared to be decided. The target of the campaign was Shreveport,the capital of Confederate Louisiana and the headquarters for the Army of the Trans-MississippiIt was also the gateway for a potential invasion of Texas, a tactic that President Abraham Lincoln was desperately seeking to employ. -
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. -
End of civil war
In an event that is generally regarded as marking the end of the Civil War, Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signs the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators. With Smith's surrender, the last Confederate army ceased to exist, bringing a formal end to the bloodiest four years in U.S. history.
Four long years later, the Confederacy was defeated at the total cost of 620,000 Union and Confederate dead. -
Battle of palmito ranch
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. At 2:00 am, on May 12, the expeditionary force surrounded the Rebel outpost at White’s Ranch, but found no one there. -
End of reconstruction
As soon as blacks gained the right to vote, secret societies sprang up in the South, devoted to restoring white supremacy in politics and social life. Most notorious was the Ku Klux Klan, an organization of violent criminals that established a reign of terror in some parts of the South, assaulting and murdering local Republican leaders.
