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Shot Fire On Fort Sumter
CitationLincoln did not want to give up the fort but he feared that sending troops might cause other states to secede . He decided to send food to fort , but on supply ships carrying no troops or guns . Condederate leaders decided to captuire the fort while it was still cute off supplies. -
First Battle of Bull Run.
[Citation](mory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html)Public demand pushed General-in-Chief Winfield Scott to advance on the South before adequately training his untried troops. Virginia. McDowell attacked on July 21, -
Port Royal, South Carolina -- 1861-1862
CitartionThis victory enabled General Thomas W. Sherman's troops to occupy first Port Royal and then all the famous Sea Islands of South Carolina, where Timothy H. O'Sullivan recorded them making themselves at home. -
Emancipation Proclamation
CitationLincoln created the Emancipation Procalmation to freed all the slaves in the Confederate territory. The proclamation tremendous impact on the public . -
Battle Of Gettysburg
CitationThe batttle was labeled the 'High Water Mark of the Rebellion , how far the confederate troop advanced against Union lines . On July 1 , Gettysburg took new postions in the hills of the south . The turning point was giving the Union the advantage . The Gettysburg won and the South lost 28,000 men and the North lost 23,000 -
Battle Of Vicksburg
CitationAbraham Lincoln recognized the significance of the town situated on a 200-foot bluff above the Mississippi River.The culmination of a long land and naval campaign by Union forces to capture a key strategic position during the American Civil War. -
Gettysburg Address
Citation Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continen.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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. -
The Battle of Spotsylvania.
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Lee Surrenders To Grant
CitationHis mens were weak and exhausted . They meet up on April 9,1865 at the house of Wilmer McLean . Lee led his Army Northern Virgina . On April 7 , General Grant intiated a series of dispatches leading to a meeting between the two commanders . -
The Fall of the Confederacy.
