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The Iron Giants
The Iron Giants were ships covered in iron. The South built them because they couldn’t move any of their ships. They built them out of railroad tracks,and abandoned ships. They used the ship so that they can sink the Union ships. The Union makes their own and they fought for days. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln Created The Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery only in the south. The problem is that the south wasn’t going to listen to them. He then issued the proclamation on January 1,1863. It declared “that all persons held as slaves are, and from this time on the shall be freed.” -
Gettysburg
The Battle Of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle ever. The Confederacy had attacked for the last time. The Gettysburg battle took 3-days, and there was a turning point in the war. The Union started to win. -
Battle of Atlanta
The Battle of Atlanta was the last battle of the Civil War. Sherman the commander at the time had just declared total war on the Confederacy. They started this battle by bombing Atlanta. Then they wrecked their railroads stopping supplies from coming into Atlanta. This battle ended they burned down Atlanta and Hampton. -
Appromattox Courthouse
Appromattox was the city where Lee surrendered to the Union. Lee’s terms of surrender was for all the officers to keep their weapons, that the soldiers go gom home (if they stopped fighting), and that the men could keep their horses and mules for farming. In return, Grant commanded that supplies be sent to the men, This concluded the Civil War on May 9th, 1865
