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Shots Fired On Fort Sumter
The salute began at 2:00 P.M. on April 14, but was cut short to 50 guns after an accidental explosion killed one of the gunners and mortally wounded another. -
New Orleans
David Farragut,Flag Officer led an assault up the Mississi River. By the time April 25 came around he was in command of New Orleans. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Written by Abraham Licoln
Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery, it did change the basic character of the Civil War.
declared "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation stated that all slaves in areas still in rebellion were, in the eyes of the federal government, free. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Grant would undertake a new and bold campaign against Vicksburg and the Confederate defenders under John Pemberton. After conducting a surprise landing below Vicksburg at Bruinsburg, Mississippi. -
West Virgina was Born
People who lived in the western counties of Virginia did not want to secede along with the rest of the state. West Virginia was admitted into the Union as a state on June 20, 1863. -
Battle Of Gettysburg
The Union demonstrations escalated on Culp's Hill and East Cemetery Hill. Confederates gained ground, but Union defenders still held strong positions. -
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address
dedicate a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. Despite its brevity and the fact that it earned little attention at the time, the Gettysburg Address is considered one of Lincoln's greatest speeches. -
Lee Surenders to Grant
Confederate forces surrendered, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured. The bloody era that began four years earlier at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, was over. General Grant and the Federal Army had finally won. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Two commanders had met up at Appomattox Courthouse, and agreed on the terms of surrender. General Lee's men were sent home on parole and, all equipment was surrendered. -
