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The First Battle of Fort Sumpter
Fort SumterThis battle lasted two days in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. This battle started the Civil War. The confederacy one this battle. After the Civil War, the U.S. military reconstructed Fort sumter and staffed during the Spanish-AMerican war, World War 1, World War 2. -
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First Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Bull RunThere were 4,878 total casualties in this battle. The confederate won. Fought in Fairfax County and Prince William county,Virginia. -
Battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
Fort Henry and DonelsonUlysses S. Grant ordered an attack on Fort Henry. After a bombardment, General Lloyd Tilghman evacuated his troops to nearby Fort Donelson. -
Battle of Hampton Roads
Battle of Hampton Roads
Also called Battle of the Merrimack and Monitor History's first battle between ironclad warships. Both the Merrimack and the Monitor were ironclad warships. The Monitor started the first engagement of ironclads. The ships fought eachother to a standstill, but the Merrimack retired. -
Battle of Antietam
battle of AntietamBattle located in Washington County, Maryland. The assault and vicious Confederate counterattacks swept back and forth through Miller’s Cornfield and the West Woods. Later, the third and final assault by the Union pushed over stone bridge at Antietam Creek. arrival of A.P. Hill’s division from Harpers Ferry helped to drive the Army of the Potomac back. Confederate retreat gave Abraham Lincoln the “victory”, before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
issud while going into the third year of the civil war. The proclamation declared that all enslaved persons in the Confederate states were now free. It was limited in several ways, however. It applied to only states seceded from the union. the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery, it transformed the character of the war. -
Battle of Gettysburg
gettysburgthis battle occured in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Confederates pushed back against the Iron brigade and made good use of a weak federal line at Barlow's Knoll. Lee strike the Union flanks, leading to heavy battle at Devil's Den, Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Peach Orchard, Culp’s Hill and East Cemetery Hill. However, they ultimately failed to remove the Union defenders. The Union regained its lost ground. Lee failed the 2nd invasion, the victory going to the Union. -
Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg Address"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live..." -
Ulysses S. Grant appointed lieutenant General
Ulysses S. GrantGrant assumes command of all Union Armies in the field the following day. -
Abraham Lincoln wins re-election
When President LIncoln was re-elected, all hope for a debated settlement with the Confederacy disappeared. In 1864, Lincoln faced many challenges to his presidency. The war was now in its fourth year, and many were questioning if the South could ever be fully conquered militarily. No country had ever held elections during war.Five months after Lincoln’s re-election, the collapse of the Confederacy was complete. -
Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomatox Court House
General Robert Lee surrendersAfter four years of the Civil War, approximately 630,000 deaths and over a million casualties, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomatox Court House. General Lee met with General Grant at the McLean home, the meeting lasted about an hour and a half. The terms agreed to by General Lee and Grant and accepted by the Federal Gov. would become the model used for all other surrenders which shortly followed after.
