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Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861- April 14, 1861
President Lincoln sends a ship to resupply the federal fort. Believing the ship had troops and weapons, the Confederacy fired on the fort. Due to the attack on the fort, Lincoln calls up 75,000 troops and some of the border states such as Virginia secede. -
First Bull Run
July 20- 21 1861
Two months after Fort Sumter, the Union makes a move by sending forces towards Richmond. They are cut off at Shenandoah Valley by 11,000 rebels. The Union shell the enemy across Bull's run. By 4 '0 clock the number is even on both sides. The Confederates broke through the Union line with the rebel yell. Confederate victory -
Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads was a battle between the Union Monitor and the Confederate Merrimack. This battle was history's first duel between ironclad warships. This was part of an effort to distory the Union blockade. Though inconclucive it opened a new chapter in navel warfare. With crowds of Union and Confederate supporters watching from the decks of nearby vessels and the shores on either side the fight began. In the end Wordens got splinters in his eyes and the Virginia left because of low ammo. -
Shiloh
April 6th - 7th 1862
Grant had taken some forst by the Tennesse River. Confederates acknowledgle importance of these forts. While moving forward in the forests. Johnston took the initiave attacked Grant before reinforcements reached him. Though both sides claimed victory it was a Confederate failure -
Antietam
At this battle generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northern soil. McClellan failed to use his bigger number of troops to crush Lee's troops. This day remains the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 22,000 casualties. -
Fredericksburg
On December 13, Burnside ordered his left wing in an attack on Lee's right while the rest of his army attempted to assault Longstreet's First Corps at Marye's Heights. They broke through but failed to send more troops through the gap. When darkness fell the Union had suffered nearly 13,000 casualties, most of them in front of Marye's Heights, while the Confederates counted fewer than 5,000. The Battle of Fredericksburg was a crushing defeat for the Union whose soldiers fought courageously. -
Chancellorsville
This battle is widely considered to be Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's greatest victory during the American Civil War. Facing an enemy force nearly twice the size of his own, Lee daringly split his troops in two, confronting and surprising Union Gen. Joseph Hooker. Though Hooker still held numerical superiority he fell back and built a defensive line. After this Lee once again split his forces and attacked. Victory had a steep price. His best general Jackson was indured by a stray shot. -
Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg lasted from July 1 1863 to July 3 1863. On the first day Lee arrived to find that some Union forces had already arrived. He pushed them back to Cemetery Ridge. On the second day of fighting Lee decided to attack the Union forces where they stood. By the end of the day there had been more that 9000 casualties on each side. On the third day Pickett attacked Cemetery Ridge, they died a lot. After this defeat Lee withdrew to Virginia. -
Vicksburg
May 18-July 4 1863
After Grant took over forts around the Mississippi River, The Confederates only point of defensive on the Mississippi was Vicksburg. May 18 Grant made it to the rear of Vicksburg. Grant then cut off supplies from the Confederates to the point that they surrendered because they were short on ammo and on the brink of starvation -
Chickamauga
Sept. 19 1863 - Sept. 20 1863
Union and Confederate forces are trying to gain the key railroad center of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The first day, Confederates repeatedly attacked the Union. When the Union was advancing they struck out of luck by going to the point of where Rosecran was shifting his troops. After the Union retreated north towards Chattanooga, Thomas organized the soldiers for a stand , earning him the lasting reputation as "Rock of Chickamauga" for his efforts. South retreats -
Wilderness
The first day of fighting began early May 5th. The dence forest made it difficult for them to march in an orderly fashion. Halted by darkness the days fighting amounted to nothing with both armies remaining more or less where they had begun that morning. Shortly after 5 a.m. on May 6 Union general Winfield Scott Hancock attacked. At dusk, Lee ordered another attack on the exposed right flank of the Union line, breaking through two brigades. After the fighting they where both at the same place. -
Spotsylvania
The fighting lasted for 12 days and had 18,000 Union and 11,000 Confederate casualties. Late on May 10, a group of 12 Union regiments assaulted the mule-shoe salient in a daring charge across 200 yard of open ground, the attack failed. At dawn on May 12, Hancock's Union corps attacked the Confederate line at a section that became known as "Bloody Angle." They won and captured lots of rebels. After all the fighting the union forces moved to attack Richmond forcing Lee to move and defend it. -
Siege of Petersburg
June 9- Sept. 29 1864 -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sept 12- Dec 21 1864
After Sherman gained Atlanta for the Union, he went on to go across Georgia to Savannah using total war all the way to the sea. His 62,000 men plundered towns and taking supplies from the Confederates without retreat. -
Lincoln's Assasination
Lincoln died on April 14. A man named John Wilkes Booth. Booths first attempt was to kidnap the president and take him to Richmond but it didn’t work. So when the Civil war was nearing its end he decided that he would just kill him at a theater he was attending. At 10:15, Booth slipped into the theater box and fired his .44-caliber single-shot derringer into the back of Lincoln's head.
