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Election of Lincoln
President Lincoln was the 16th president of the US. By the time of his inauguration on March 4, 1860 seven states had seceded. The Confederate States of America had been formally established. One month later, the American Civil War started Confederate forces opened fire at Fort Sumpter. -
TX secedes from Union
Texas was the seventh state to secede from the Union. The Texas who voted to leave the Union did so over the objections of their governer, Sam Houstan. Houstan refused to take the oath of alligiance to the Confederacy. He was replaced in March 1861 by his lieutenant governer. -
Houstan kicked out of office
Houstan knew that if Texas seceded they would not when a war against the US. Even though a state convention votes 166 to 8 in favor of the measure. Those that wanted to leave did so. Houstan refused to take the oath of alliegiance to the Confederacy. he was kicked out of office and was replaced. -
Battle at Fort Sumpter
General P.G.T Bearegard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charelston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumpter. At 2:30pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. No soldiers were killed in battle. Howerver, Anderson performed a 100-gun salute before he and his men left. -
Battle of Galveston
The Battle of Galveston was a naval and land battle of the American Civil War. After the loss of the cutter Harriet Lane, the Union Fleet Commander Willian B. Renshaw blew uo the stranded vessel to save from falling into enemy hands. Union troops on shore thought the fleet was surrendering, and laid down arms. -
Battle of Gettysberg
Early Union success faltered as Confederates pushed back against the Iron Bridge 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 wheatfiels, Peach Orchard, Culp's Hill and East Cemetary Hill. The Southerers captured Devil's Den and the Peach Orchard, but ultimately faild to dislodge the Union defenders. -
Battle of Sabine Pass
About 6:00 am on the morning of SEptember 8, 1863, a Union flotilla of four gunboats and seven troop transports steamed into Sabine Pass. They went up the Sabine River with the intention of reducing Fort Griffin and landing troops to begin occupying Texas. -
Red River Campain
The outcome of the Civil War appeared to be decided. The agricultural South had fought long and hard against the North, but the zeal and military prowes of the Confederates was not enoughprevail againsy the vast resources of the North. The Red River Campaign, which included the largst combined army-navy operation of the war, was the last decisive Confederate victory of the war. -
End of Civil War
After four years of combat, whitch had left around 750,000 Americans. Union and Confederate, dead and had destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed and slavery was abolished. then began the reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves. -
Battle of Palmito Ranch
Both forces in southern Texas had been observing an unofficial truce. Union Colonel Theodore H. Barrett orderes an attack on a Confederate camp near Fort Brown. The Union took a few prisionars. The attack was repulsed near Palmito Ranch the next day. -
Juneteenth
The oldest know celebration commemerationg the ending of sla very in the U.S. The Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. The forces were finally strong enough to influence and overcome the resistance. -
Reconstruction Ends
The transformation of the Soouthern U.S from 1863 to 1877, as directed by congress, with the reconstruction of state and society..
President Ulysses S. Grant supported Radical Reconstruction and enforced the protection of African Americans in the South through the use of the Enforcement. Reconstruction was a sigfificant chapter in U.S Cicil Rights history
