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The Cival War
Jefferson Davis comes out in favor of secession for the first time -
The Civil War begins
After Abraham Lincon was elected president 11 southern states secede from the union. -
Military Events
Shots fire on fort sumpter. Battle of Gettysburg. Battle of vicksburg. Lee surenders to grant. -
Virginia Secede
Virginia secedes from the Union, followed within 5 weeks by Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, thus forming an eleven state Confederacy. -
The Civial War
The Constitution Union Party, meeting in Baltimore, creates a platform taken from the U. S. Constitution and selects John Bell of Tennessee for President and Edward Everett of Massachusetts for Vice-President. -
The Siege of Vicksburg
Lincoln, in a speech to Congress, states the war is..."a People's contest... a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men..." The -
The Battle of Bull Run
At one point in the battlethe southerns General Thomas J Jackson, He won the nickname Stonewall Jackson because his men held the fast against the union of assult. -
The Civil War
President Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as Commander of the Department of the Potomac, replacing McDowell. -
The Battle of Shiloh
After Grant's victory the confederate commander on the west front ordered a retreat to mississippi & asked for more troops from Nashville. Tennessee turned into rthe fight that led to The Civil War.
