The Nation Breaks Apart

By JDArePurple

  • Fort Sumter was attacked

  • Fort Sumter was defeated

  • President Lincoln formed the US Sanitary Commission

  • All the Confederates had arrived to fight the Union in the First Battle of Bull Run

  • The Battle of Shiloh

  • McClellan launched an effort to capture Richmond called the "Peninsular Campaign"

  • David Farragut took a daring dash to get to New Orleans

  • New Orleans fell

  • Lee strengthened his positions and launched a series of clashes known as Seven Days' Battles

  • Second Battle of Bull Run

  • The Battle of Antietam

  • Lincoln read the Emancipation Proclamation

  • Grant's troops began the Siege of Vicksburg

  • Pemberton surrendered to the Siege of Vicksburg

  • The 54th Massachusetts Infantry charged towards South Carolina's Fort Wagner

  • The Gettysburg Address was given by Lincoln

  • Lee surrendered in the Appomattox Courthouse