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South C. Secedes
South Carolina Secedes from the U.S. -
Mississippi Secedes.
Mississippi secedes from the U.S. -
Florida Secedes
Flordia Secedes from U.S. -
Alabama Secedes
Alabama Secedes from U.S. -
Georgia Secedes
Georgia Secedes from U.S. -
Louisiana secedes
Louisiana Secedes from the U.S. -
Texas secedes
Texas secedes from U.S. -
Fort Sumpter
40 hours of bombardment of the fort caused it to finally fall. However by the time it fell one fifth of the fort was on fire. The southern troops let the northeners leave without being killed while they took the fort. -
Verginia secedes
Verginia secedes from the U.S. -
Arkansas secedes
Arkansas secedes from the U.S. -
Tennessee secedes
Tennessee secedes from the U.S. -
North C.
North Carolina secedes from the U.S. -
Bull Run
This was the first real battle of the Civil War, it was only 30 miles from Washington D.C., near Bull Run Creek. Many congressmen adn their wives came to see the battle. The north was defeated and was forced to retreat back to the capital. -
Monitor & Merrimack fight
This was a battle between two ironclad ships. These ships were armored ships with turrets on them. It happened at the Hampton Roads and it was also called the Battle of Hampton Roads. The Southern Ironclad ship The Verginia sunk ships from the North the first day, but when the Monitor from the north came it retired. -
Battle of Shiloh
This was a surprise attack by Gen. Johnston and Gen. Beauregard on the Union army. The Union was very successful the first day of fighting because the Confederates got confused at the lines and ended up falling back when Ge. Johnston was killed. However The Union fell the next day. -
Battle of Antietam
This battle was fought in Maryland and was concidered the first major battle of the Civil War, and was also the bloodiest single day battle of the war. The Union soldiers were winning the battle but a surprise attack by Ge. A.P. Hill when the Union least expected it ending the battle. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The first one, issued September 22, 1862, declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. The second order, issued January 1, 1863, named ten specific states where it would apply. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
This was a battle between Gen. Lee and the new Gen. that replaced Gen. MCclellan. The new Gen. Burnside was appointed by Lincoln, however all of his men were slaughtered by the confederates on this day. -
Battle of Chansellorsville
This battle between Gen. Hooker and Gen. Lee was thought to be a one sided fight. The union outnumbered the Confederates 2/1. But Gen. Lee made a risk in splitting up his forces to flank Hooker, this tactic worked to perfection and drove off the Unioners. -
Battle of Vicksburg
This battle was fought for control over the Mississipi River. Gen. Grant surrounded the fort that was on top of a hill and started to seige it. Eventually the fort surrendered giving control of the river to the Union. -
West Verginia becomes a state
Western Virginia became a state because most of the people that lived in the western part or Virginia did not want to be in the Confederacy so they broke off from Virginia and became a state of their own. However this went against how new states were not supposed to be made out of the boundaries of old states. However this was overlooked because of the need for more territory for the Union. -
Battle of Getttysburg
This was a battle fought between the Union and Confederate soldiers, General George Gordon Meade fought off attacks from Gen. Robert E. Lee, ending Lee's assault. This was said to be the bloodiest battle with the most casualties, and described as the turning point of the war. -
Battle of Little Roundtop
This was an assualt by the confederate troops of a hill by Gettysburg. It was the right flank of the Union troops and the Confederates wanted to try and take it to win the battle. However the 20th Maine division held their ground and kept the flank under control defeating the Confederates that tried to take it. -
Gettysburg Adress
This was a speech given by Lincoln at the Gettysburg Cemetary. He spoketo the soldiers and spoke of the dead soldiers that fought in that Battle of Gettysburg. -
Stonewall Jackson Killed
Jackson died from a mixture of Pneumonia and other injuries, he would tell people that if it was Gods time for him to die then he was fine with it. A few moments before he died he cried out in his delirium, "Order A.P. Hill to prepare for action! Pass the infantry to the front rapidly! Tell Major Hawks" -
Lincoln Election and Assassination
Lincoln was re-elected to his second term during the civil war, but weas assassinated the next year, causing the war mostly to stop. -
Lincoln gets reelected
Lincoln was overwhelmingly elected by northern voters to be reelected as the president. However some men feared he would not win. But when Lincoln talked of this he said that he would not give up the whitehouse until he defeated the confederacy. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
The Savannah Campaign (Sherman's March to the Sea) was conducted across Georgia during November-December 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. -
Surrender at Appomattox
This was the end of the Civil War for the most part, Lee realized now that he could never win the war and agreed to meet at the house of Wilmer Mclean to surrender. -
13th Amendent
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[1]
