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Ft. Sumter
The Confederate took immediate action by taking over federal installations, Post office, Court houses, and Fort’s commander sent an urgent dispatch to the president from Major Anderson, and the confederacy was demanding that he surrender, and the fort’s resources were severely scarce. -
Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run was the first bloodshed war on July 21, about three months after Fort Sumter fell. “Confederate Capital 400 hundred miles away from Washington D.C. The battle was depicted as a “See Saw Affair” General Thomas J. Jackson, because of his iconic quote,” There is Jackson standing like a stone wall” i doing so would eventually grant him the nickname him Stonewall Jackson. The south would claim their first Victory. -
Battle of Shiloh
Grant gathered his troops near Mississippi Border, April 6 thousands of yelling Confederates soldiers surprised the union forces, and LOL for getting shot while drinking Coffee, in still in your blankets. By midafternoon the Confederate forces were in retreat. The Confederate failure to hold on to its Ohio-Kentucky frontier showed that at least part of the Union’s three-way strategy, the drive to take the Mississippi and split the Confederacy, might succeed. -
Battle at Richmond
McClellan finally got under way in the spring of 1862. He transported the Army of the Potomac slowly toward the Confederate capital. Confederate army commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston. After a series of battles, Johnston was wounded and command of the army passed to Robert E. Although the Confederates had fewer soldiers and suffered higher casualties, Lee’s determination and unorthodox tactics so unnerved McClellan that he backed away from Richmond and headed down the peninsula to the sea. -
Battle at Antietam
his troops won a resounding victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run. A few days later, they crossed the Potomac into the Union state of Maryland. A resident of one Potomac River town described the starving Confederate troops.. A few days later, they crossed the Potomac into the Union state of Maryland. A resident of one Potomac River town described the starving Confederate troops. For once McClellan acted aggressively and ordered his men forward after Lee. -
The Succession of Virginia
Lincoln’s dilemma, “If he is ordered the navy to shoot its way into Charleston harbor and reinforce Fort Sumter, but then he would be responsible for causing hostilities, in will cause slaves state to secede”. If Lincoln ordered the evacuated, it would be seen as him making the confederacy a alignment nation, angering the republic party endangering, the nation. The war started at 4:30 am on April 12, the town was faced a bombardment, and eventually Anderson Surrendered. -
Battle of GettyBurg
The year 1863 actually had gone well for the South. During the first four days of May, the South defeated the North at Virginia. Lee outmaneuvered Union general Joseph Hooker and forced the Union army to retreat., but neither he nor the Confederacy would ever recover from the loss at Gettysburg or the surrender of Vicksburg, which occurred the very next day. -
Gettysburg Address
In November 1863, a ceremony was held to dedicate a cemetery in Gettysburg. Thefirst speaker was Edward Everett, a noted orator, who gave a flowery two-hour oration. Then Abraham Lincoln spoke for a little more than two minutes. According to the historian Garry Wills, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address “remade America.” Before the war, people said, “The United States are.” After Lincoln’s speech, they said, “The United States is. -
Surrender at Approximate
March 1865, it was clear that the end of the Confederacy was near. Grant and Sheridan were approaching
Richmond from the west, while Sherman was approaching from the south. Grant’s forces at Peters burg—President Davis and his government abandoned their capital, setting it afire to keep the Northerners from taking it. After four long years, at tremendous human and economic costs, the Civil War was over. -
The assassination of Lincoln
Lincoln, raised a pistol, and fired, hitting the president in the back of the head. assassin, John Wilkes Booth—a 26-year-old actor and Southern sympathizer—then leaped down to the stage. Some thought it was the state motto of Virginia, “Sic semper tyrannis”—in English “Thus be it ever to tyrants.” Others thought he said, “The South is avenged!”
