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South Carolina Secedes from Union
justified their secession that the US elected a president whose ideas and opinions were " hostile to slavery" -
The Rest of the Deep South Secedes; Confederacy founded
Jefferson Davis was the elected as the President for the Confederacy -
Confederate Forces Attack Fort Sumter
marks the begnning of the Civil War -
Upper South Secedes
these states included Virginia, NC, Tenn., and Arkansas -
South Wins first battle
Battle of Bull Run was first official battle of war -
General Grant Captures forts Henry and Donelson
The Battle of Fort Donelson was fought from February 11 to February 16, 1862, in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The capture of the fort by Union forces opened the Cumberland River as an avenue for the invasion of the South -
Farragut Captures New Orleans for Union
The Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip (April 18–28, 1862) was the decisive battle for possession of New Orleans in the American Civil War -
South wins 2nd Battle of Bull Run
It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) fought in 1861 on the same ground. -
McClellan stops Lee at battle of Antietam
was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties -
Lee defeats Union army at Fredericksburg
The Union army's futile frontal assaults on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates -
McClellan leads unsuccessful campaign on peninsula southeast of Richmond
McClellan was initially successful against the equally cautious General Joseph E. Johnston, but the emergence of the aggressive General Robert E. Lee turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a humiliating Union defeat. -
Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced -
Lee victorious at Chancellorsville
It is known as Lee's "perfect battle" because of his risky but successful division of his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force -
North gains major victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg
The Union had secured control of the Miss. river with the victory at Vicksburg, and had at last won a major battle in the East (Gettysburg) -
Grant defeats Confederates at Chattanooga
as a result of its success in the Battle of Chattanooga, the North poised for an invasion of Georgia -
Grant and Lee fight a series of battles
these bloody battles in Northern Virginia followed a set pattern... Lee would take up a position in the path of the invading force, and while inflicting heavy casualties on the Union, they suffered losses they coulnd't afford -
Atlanta falls to Sherman
with this victory, the North occupied most of the South. it also unified the Republican party and greatly increased Lincoln's chances for re-election -
Lincoln re-elected to President
defeats McClellan, won 212 of 233 possible electorate votes -
Sherman marches through Georgia
destroyed almost everything of possibly military or economic value in his path. -
Congress passes 13th amendment
this amendment abolished slavery in all states and any state to come into the Union -
Lincoln assassinated
John Wilkes Booth, a pro-Confederate, assassinated Lincoln as the president watched a play at Ford's theater in Wash.
