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Fort Sumter
The first shots of Civil War -
Battle of Bull Run
It was the first major battle of the Civil War and resulted in a Confederate victory -
Battle of Shiloh
Confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River results are 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more men than in all previous American wars combined. -
Battle of Antietam
was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history,with casualties totaling more than 26,000.
Union won although it have a lot of casualties. -
battle of fredericksburg
was a major Confederate victory and one of the most lopsided defeats of the Civil War for Union forces. The battle had over 18,000 casualties. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln issued it to freeing all enslaved people in rebellions state -
Battle of Vicksburg
was the final major military action in the American Civil War.Completely Union won. Grant take it from confederate and cuts the south in to the half -
The battle of Gettysburg
the turning point that Union won and it is the bloodiest and longest war during the Civil War -
The election of 1864
Republican Pres. Abraham Lincoln defeated Democrat George B. McClellan. News of General Sherman’s victories inspired the North and helped Lincoln win reelection. -
The surrender at Appomattox
At the Appomattox Court House,Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.
met to arrage a confederate surrender. The Civil waer was over. -
Lincoln's Assassination
He was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
