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President Lincoln calls for army volunteers and First Battle
President Lincoln asks three months service from each volunteer.
This was the first great battle of the Civil War. The battle was fought at Manassas Junction near Bull Run Creek.The North was defeated andretreated to the capital. -
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Fighting on the Mississippi
Captured Fort Henry along the Tennessee River. Ulysses S. Grant attacked Fort Donelson, a Confederate fort. At Fort Donelson Grant sent the message, The fighting lasted three days. Grant took 12,000 Confederate prisoners. -
Battle of Shiloh
There were 23,746 casulities.Grant sent his army south. The Confederate army met Grant at Shiloh, Tennessee. Grant had not expected the attack. At first he was losing, then more Northern troops arrived and Grant defeated the Southerners. -
Confederate army need men
Confederate army needs men for battle, and men between the ages of 18 and 35 must serve. -
Seven Days Battle
There were series of battles. Southern army led by Generals Joseph E. Johnston and Robert E. Lee, the South managed to drive back the Union army. -
Second battle at Bull Run
Located in Prince William County. In order to draw Pope’s army into battle, Jackson ordered an attack on a Federal column that was passing across his front on the Warrenton Turnpike. The fighting at Brawner Farm lasted several hours and resulted in a stalemate. -
Battle of Antietam
Under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of assaults against Robert E. Lee’s forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland. The morning assault and vicious Confederate counterattacks swept back and forth through Miller’s Cornfield and the West Woods.The bloodiest single day in American military history ended in a draw. -
Lincoln frees all the slaves
President issued a proclamation freeing all the slaves in the South. Lincoln's document called the Emancipation Proclamation was called that because it emancipated the slaves. -
Battle of Stones River
Was fought in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. However, thisbattle was a resounding Federal victory, pushing the Confederate Army of Tennessee out of the central portion of the state. -
Chancellorsville
The south was at a town called Fredricksburg. The north had lost a battle there the previous year and were trying to sneak up on Fredricksburg this time by going another way. Gen. Lee found out about this plan just in time to send most of his army to intercept the northern army. They met at a town called Chancellorsville. Darkness made everyone stop fighting and during the night the northern army went back. South won. -
Vicksburg
In Vicksburg, Mississippi. Grant surrounded the fort and began a siege. Vicksburg surrendered. This gave the North control of the Mississippi River. Union won. -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America, involving around 85,000 men in the Union’s Army of the Potomac under Major General George Gordon Meade and approximately 75,000 in the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert Edward Lee. -
Port Hudson
Union Army troops assaulted and then surrounded the Mississippi River town of Port Hudson, Louisiana. Union victory. -
Chickamauga
Confederates won the battle. The Union army had retreated to Chattanooga. Longstreet was sent to attack Knoxville. Lincoln had time to replace Rosecrans with General Ulysses Grant who brought in reinforcements. -
Chattanooga
the union army led by General William S. Rosecrans, retreated back to its base at Chattanooga. Reaching the safety of the town, they quickly erected defenses before General Braxton Bragg's pursuing Army of Tennessee arrived. Moving his men onto Missionary Ridge to the east and Lookout Mountain to the south, Bragg soon commanded the approaches to the city and placed the Union troops under siege -
Grant appointed Commander-in-Chief
President Lincoln appointed Grant becoming general in chief of the North. Grant then appinted General William T. Sherman to command the Western armies, while General George G. Meade was the commander of the armies of the East. -
Cold Harbor
Grant kept moving toward Lee's army They fought the Southern army at Cold Harbor. After many dealths the Union army called off the attack. Confederate victory. -
Election of Lincoln
Lincoln was reelected President for a second term. -
Petersburg and Richmond
General Grant and General Meade's Army moved to the south of Richmond. During the winter the Union army attacked many times, but could not break through. After nine months General Lee was forced to retreat toward giving up both Petersburg and Richmond. -
Lincoln's assasination
Lincoln attending a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C. The assisin was and actor named John Wilkes Booth.
