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Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel that is about anti slavery by someone named Harriet Beecher Stowe. This novel opened the eyes of many, including the republican party and this book actually played a big part in getting President Lincoln elected because of the promises he made to abolish slavery. The novel was one of the setting-stones of the Civil War. This novel was very popular in its time and even getting about two million copies world wide which was a great achievement for that time. -
Fort Sumter
The battle of Fort Sumter lasted 34 hours and was located in South Carolina. That exact battle was where the first shots of the Civil War occured. At the end of the war Anderson and 86 other Soldiers surrendered and the Confederacy won. -
Battle of Big Bethel
Near the top of the Virginia Peninsula is where the battle of Big Bethel broke out leaving only 19 dead. This battle was significant for being the first land battle of the War in Virginia. The Unions 3,500 soldiers were ran by commander Gen. Ebenezer Pierce and the Confederates 1,200 soldiers were ran by Cols. John B. Magruder and D.H. Hill. This battle ended up being a Confederate victory. -
First Battle of the Bull Run
The First Battle of the Bull was near Manassas Junction Virginia where 60,000 forces engaged in the battle. The commander on the Union side was Irvin McDowell and P.G.T Beauregard for the Confederacy. The Significance of the battle is that the Northerners came in expecting to win quick and sneakily but ended up losing and going home with more deaths then the confederate side. -
Battle of Roanoke Island
n North Carolina, a little island called Roanoke was abducted by General Ambrose Burnside and his Union troops. Burnside brought 10,000 troops there while they were only met with 2,500 confederates. The Confederate General tried to retreat but had to surrender instead. There were 60 men who died in that battle. -
Battle of Pea Ridge
This battle took place in northern Arkansas with 2000 casualties. The significance of this battle is that it was one step closer to securing Missouri for the Union which could be very useful in the future. 11,000 Union troops were lead by Samuel Curtis who defeated 16,000 Confederate troops lead by general Earl Van Dorn. -
Battle of the Ironclads
The battle of the ironclads was a very cool and very iconic battle because it was on the water between two ships the U.S.S Monitor and the C.S.S Merrimack. The Merrimack was originally owned by the Union but the Confederacy stole it and made it their own. The Confederate Ironclad entered the Hampton Roads water and then began the fight. Many ships sunk and nobody really won at the end but it did prove that ironclads could be good for war and should be used more. -
Shiloh
This battle was also significant for its bloodshed with more then 23,000 casualties. A former president also fought in the battle Ulysses S. Grant on the side of the Union. The word Shiloh is peace in Hebrew so maybe that is significant to this battle in how they want peace. -
Antietam
The battle of Antietam happened in Maryland and is one of the most notorious fights of the Civil War as well as one of the deadliest. This specific battle has two names Antietam and Sharpsburg. The winner was the Union and that battle took 22,000 lives. -
Fredericksburg
The battle which would later lead to a Confederate victory involved about 200,000 combatants and was lead by Ambrose Burnside for the union and Robert E.Lee for the Confederacy. The Union was on their way to the battle point when they were surprise attacked by the confederacy, and even though the Confederacy won, they were super outnumbered but at the end of the day the Union were very much defeated and surrendered. -
The Battle of Stones River
Going into this fight, the Union was in withdrawal from losing the fight they had not too long before at Fredericksburg so they knew they had to win. This battle was one of the most deadly battles of the Civil war there were approximately 13,000 deaths from both sides in the specific battle. General Braxton on the confederate side took 35,000 troops to war while Major general William Rosecrans for the Union took 42,000 troops and overall won. -
Emancipation Proclamation
On this day, Lincoln presented the Emancipation proclamation and the idea of it was for everyone who was labeled a slave in confederate and Union states would be free. The Confederacy and the French disapproved but the French couldn't intervene because of Lincolns power. Although this proclamation didn’t free all of the slaves of its time, the ones that it did were able to join the union army and live a normal life for a free black person at that time. -
Chancellorsville
The battle of Chancellorsville was taken place in Virginia and was run by Union commander Joseph Hooker and Confederate commander Robert E. Lee. This battle lasted a total of a week and took the lives of about 3,500 soldiers from both sides. And even though the Union had a bigger army, the Confederacy won this battle and this victory lead Robert E. Lee to have another invasion on union grounds. This battle also cause the death of Stonewall Jackson. -
Vicksburg
The siege of Vicksburg was very crucial for the Union to win (which they did) because they were able to take control of the Mississippi river inevitably splitting up the confederacy. This was one of the longer battles lasting over a month with 37,000 casualties in all. During the many weeks of battle the city as a whole was running out of food and supplies. -
Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg started when the Northern Virginia troops started pouring into the Pennsylvanian town and officially started the battle. The battle of Gettysburg was a very early occurrence of the war and a very important one at that. The North ended up winning which put an end to the Southern generals plan of making this fight end the war but that just backfired. This war is significant for having one of the highest death rate in the whole war. -
Battle of Chickamauga
In this huge fight 125,000 forces engaged in battle with an estimate of 35,000 casualties from both sides. The people who were leading the troops to victory and despair were Commander William S. Rosecrans for the Union and Braxton Bragg for the confederates. In the end, the Confederacy won with less than expected death rate. -
Battle of the Wilderness
This battle was taken place in a county in Virginia and was labeled Inconclusive because nobody won. The commanders were Ulysses S. Grant that lead the 100,000 Union troops through the war and Robert E. Lee who lead the 60,000 Confederate groups through it. There were 29,000 casualties and many dead. -
Lincoln Reelection
Lincoln was the president for a full term also leading the Union to victory through the Civil War which was part of the reason why he was reelected. His competitor was Democratic nominee General George B. McClellan and there was a very large gap between the votes and notoriously Lincoln won. The significance of this election was that Lincoln was the first president to be reelected since Andrew Jackson 50 years before. -
Appomattox
In the battle of Appomattox courthouse the general of the confederacy surrendered himself and his army to the union. This was a good idea on behalf on General Lee because he didn’t want extra destruction in the south but that came at the price of 28,000 soldiers. This final occurrence was actually the thing that put an end to the Civil War leaving the North to win. -
Lincoln Assassination
On this date at the Ford’s theater Abraham Lincoln was killed by a confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln's life wasn’t the only one that was taken but two others, a group of people like Booth with intentions to kill some people of the government and initially planned to kidnap Lincoln and trade him for Confederate soldiers but that didn’t happen.
