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secession of virginia
was called in Richmond to determine secession from the United States, to govern the state during a state of emergency, and to write a new Constitution for Virginia, which was subsequently voted down in referendum under the Confederate regime. Called "the Black Thursday of the Confederacy," at Sailor's Creek Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia lost 7,700 men, including eight generals. April 1865: Richmond fell and the South surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse -
FT. Sumter
was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia (the Confederate Army did not yet exist), and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. no casualties during the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter at the start of the American Civil War. -
Battle at bull run
Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War. ... The Confederate victory gave the South a surge of confidence and shocked many in the North, who realized the war would not be won as easily as they had hoped. cost some 3,000 Union casualties, compared with 1,750 for the Confederates -
battle at Shiloh
explodes in the west as the armies of Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston collide at Shiloh, near Pittsburgh Landing in Tennessee. ... Grant's objective was Corinth, a vital rail center that if captured would give the Union total control of the region Both sides suffered heavy losses, with more than 23,000 total casualties, and the level of violence shocked North and South alike.Nov 9, 2009 -
battle at richmond
Total casualties were 5,353 was fought on August 29 & 30, 1862, and pitted experienced Confederate soldiers under Major General Edmund Kirby Smith against raw, inexperienced recruits under Union Major General William “Bull” Nelson., resulting in an overwhelmingly Confederate victory -
battle at Antietam
Beginning early on the morning of September 17, 1862, Confederate and Union troops in the Civil War clash near Maryland's Antietam Creek in the bloodiest single day in American military history. ... On the morning of September 18, both sides gathered their wounded and buried their dead.included 20% dead and 80% wounded. -
emancipation proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free. more total of casualties -
battle at gettysburg
fought in July 1863, was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. More than 50,000 men fell as casualties during the 3-day battle, making it the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. totaled 23,049 for the Union -
Gettysburg address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. ... Everett spoke for two hours, from memory, before Lincoln took the podium.n the battle numbered 23,000, while the Confederates had lost some 28,000 men–more than a third of Lee's army. -
surrender at appomattox
On April 9, 1865, near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. ... But the resulting Battle of Appomattox Court House, which lasted only a few hours, effectively brought the four-year Civil War to an end Casualties for the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse were light, 260 for the Union, 440 for the Confederacy. Grant received Lee's letter of surrender just before noon. -
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. As Lincoln slumped forward in his seat, Booth leap onto the stage and escaped through the back door.