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Abraham Lincoln Elected President
He was the first republican to be elected president. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. -
Lincoln orders the blockades of the south
The confederate States of American tried to block off the passages too prevent them from getting food, goods, and supplies. They used ships called blockade runners were newly bulit and high speed. -
1st Battle of Bull Run
The first major land battle of the armies. -
Monitor vs. Virginia naval battle
The two ships were destroyed and more than 240 men died. -
Battle of Shiloh
40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. -
7 Days Campaign
There was many battles that took place over a 7 day period with an attempt to capture Richmond Virgina. -
2nd Battle of Bull Run
Proved to be the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign waged between Union and Confederate armies in northern Virginia in 1862. -
Antietam
The morning assault and vicious Confederate counterattacks swept back and forth through Miller’s Cornfield and the West Woods. Later, towards the center of the battlefield, Union assaults against the Sunken Road pierced the Confederate center after a terrible struggle. Late in the day, the third and final major assault by the Union army pushed over a bullet-strewn stone bridge at Antietam Creek -
Emancipation Proclamation issued
The proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are henceforward shall be free. -
Emancipation Proclamation takes effect
The proclamation freed all slaves in states that were still in rebellion. -
Battle at Chancellorsville
The General placed his reorganized Army of the Potomac on Lee’s vulnerable flank. Rather than retreat before this sizable Federal force, Lee opted to attack Hooker while he was still within the thick wilderness. -
Battle of Gettysburg
It was a turning point in the war. After this Abrham Lincoln issued the gettysburg adress. -
Siege of Vicksburg
General Ulysses S. Grant's Union Army of the Tennessee waged a fighting campaign of maneuver to isolate the city of Vicksburg and the Confederates defending it. Defeats at Champion Hill and Big Black River gave Confederate commander General John C. Pemberton no choice but retreat to the defenses of Vicksburg and hold out until reinforcements could arrive. -
Battle at Chattanooga
The victories forced the Confederates back into Georgia, ending the siege of the vital railroad junction of Chattanooga, and paving the way for Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta campaign and march to Savannah, Georgia, in 1864. -
Ulysses S. Grant takes over the Union Army
He led the Union army against the confederate military. -
Sherman Captures Atlanta
They captured Atlanta with minimal losses. Confederate calvary leader is still on the losse though. -
Abraham Lincoln re-elected
Any hope for a negotiated settlement with the Confederacy vanished. They didnt want slavery to be abolished. -
Sherman begins march to the sea
Sherman's army destroyed most of the state before capturing the Confederate seaport of Savannah, Georgia. -
Savannah, GA falls to the Union
They now have created a military barrier that stretches from east to west across the South, hampering the Confederate army's attempts to move men and supplies through the region. -
13th Amendment passed
States that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
Robert E. Lee surrenders
It pretty much ended the war. -
Abraham Lincoln shot and killed
The president of the United States was killed. -
Gettysburg Address
It's dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. -
Union Army takes over Richmond Virginia
Richmond, Virginia was the confederate capital.
