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The Battle Of Fort Sumter
The first states began to secede from the union in 1860. The US army was stationed in the south of Carolina.It was led by Robert Anderson and the soldiers all when in boats.People were mad because the Union was taking over.They wanted the Union to leave.The Union held control of Fort Sumter for almost 4 months.On April 12,1861 The Confederates started fighting with them it lasted 34 hours.The Civil war has begun.They surrendered so The Confederates won and nobody died. -
Battle of Antietam
1862 - The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces. By nightfall 26,000 men are dead, wounded,making it the bloodiest day in American history.Lee then withdraws to Virginia. The Union had won the battle. The Union victory at Antietam resulted in President Abraham Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
in 1862 five days after the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This document stated that on January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the Confederacy were emancipated, or freed. It did not apply to slave states that had stayed in the Union—Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. -
Battle of Vicksburg
1863 Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, surrenders to Gen. Grant and the Army of the West after a six week siege. With the Union now in control of the Mississippi, the Confederacy is effectively split in two, cut off from its western allies. -
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 General Robert E. Lee’s army had defeated the Union in several battles. 1863, Lee’s army met Union troops under General George Meade in the small farm town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Neither army had planned to fight there. For three days, the armies fought each other. Neither side was able to win.About 51,000 soldiers were killed or wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg. It was the bloodiest battle ever fought in North America. -
Appomattox Courthouse
I1864, voters re-elected Abraham Lincoln. In March 1865, Grant was closing in on Lee at Petersburg. After the Union siege, Confederate soldiers defending the city were near starvation. On April 2, Lee took his army west, hoping to find food and gather more Confederate troops. As a result, Petersburg fell. The next day, Richmond, the Confederate capital, also fell. The war was over!On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
