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Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861, when Confederate artillery opened fire on the Federal fort in Charleston Harbor. Fort Sumter surrendered 34 hours later. Union forces would try for nearly four years to take it back. And was a Confederate victory. -
Battle of Bull Run (1st)
Bull Run 1the first Bull Run was the first major battle in the Civil War. The Unoin army commanded by general McDowell who had 28,000 men on his side. The Confederates had General Beauregard with 33,000 men under his command. The battle lasted for 5 hours and the Union had the Conferderates on retreat untill General Jackson held his ground -
Battle of Hampton Roads
Hampton RoadThe Battle of Hampton Roads was a navy battle.The results of the first day's fighting at Hampton Roads proved the superiority of iron over wood.On March 8, 1862 the Confederate ironclad Virginia went into Hampton Roads where she sank Cumberland and ran Congress aground. On March 9, the Union ironclad Monitor had arrived to do battle, initiated the first engagement of ironclads in history. The two ships fought each other to a standstill. Which ended as a tie. -
Battle of Shiloh
ShilohThe battle of Shiloh took place in Tennesse. Gen. Grant was on the Union and Gen. Johnston on the Confederate. Gen. Johnston was killed and the Union took control of the Tennesse river. The North won. -
Battle of Bull Run 2
Bull Run 2Theconfederate general Jackson and the Unoin General Pope forces clased on AUG. 28th 1862. Pope launched a series of assaults against Jackson’s position along an unfinished railroad grade. The attacks were repulsed with casualties on both sides. The battle lasted for two days and the confederates had reanforcements from General Lees army whiched caused a conederate vicory. -
Battle of Antietam
antietamMajor General George B. McClellan of the Unions forces and General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate forces meet at Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 16th in the Battle of Antietam. The battle lasted for two days and had 23,100 casualties. The Unoin had a strategic advantage and was known as the bloodest day in Civil War. The south was out numbered 2 :1. Lee sent his whole army to battle but McClellan sent in less than three-quarters of his army. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
fredricksburgMajor General George B. McClellan of the Union army had a message from washingtonc that he was fired from his position as general and General Ambrose E. Burnside Burnside sent a series of fatile assaults on Prospect Hill and Marye’s Heights that resulted in heavy casualties. But the confederate forces had a good defense and the wo the battle. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
ChancellorsvilleThe battle of Chancellorsville was known as General Lees greatest victory. Major General Joseph Hooker, a 48-year-old Massachusetts native was i command of the Union army his plan was to make Lee leave fredericksburg and finish his army of Northern Virginia. The Confederate army won because they held a strong defense. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of GettysburgThe Battle of Gettysburg was between the Union General Meade and the Confederate General Lee. The confederates were out numbered by 22000 men. the battle was the worst in american history. As a resolt the Union won. -
Siege of Vicksburg
Vicksburg In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies came to on Vicksburg, trapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after after many battles. This was the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. With the loss of Pemberton’s army and this vital stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in half. Grant's successes in the West boosted his reputation. The Union won. -
Siege of Alanta
atlantaThe battle was between Gen. sherman and gen. HoodThe Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. -
Ratification of the 13th Amendment
13th amendmentThe Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, passed by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18. It was the first of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Appomatox courthouseOn Palm Sunday, 1865, Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia ended the Southern States attempt to create a separate nation. It set the stage for the of an expanded and more powerful Federal government. In a sense the struggle over how much power the central government would hold had finally been settled. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
assassination of lincolnAt 10am on April 14th 1865 in Fords theater in Washington D.C. 16th Priesedent Abraham Lincoln was shoot by John Wilkes Booth in the head. Booth jumped onto the stage and escaped through the back door. A doctor soon rused over to help the paralyzed presedent and took him to Petersons bording house wear he died the next day in the morning.
