Ch. 15 Secession and the war

By copperhead2295

  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

  • Rest of Deep South secedes

    Confederacy is founded

  • Fort Sumter is fired upon

    Surrenders to Confederates

  • Upper South secedes

  • South wins first battle of Bull Run

    Battle of Bull Run

  • Grant captures forts Henry and Donelson

  • Farragut captures New Orleans for the Union

  • McClellan leads unsuccessful campaign on the penninsula southeast of Richmond

  • South wins second battle of Bull Run

  • McClellan stops Lee at battle of Antietam

  • Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

  • Lee defeats Union army at Fredricksburg

  • Lincoln issues final Emancipation Proclamation

  • Lee is victorious at Chancellorsville

  • North fains major victories at Gettysburg adn Vicksburg

  • Grant defeats Confederate forces at Chattanooga

  • Grant adn Lee battle in northern Virginia

  • Atlanta falls to Sherman

  • Lincoln is re-elected president

    defeating McClellan

  • Sherman marches through Georgia