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Fort Sumter
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Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was built following the War of 1812, as one of a series of fortifications on the southern U.S. coast. Construction began in 1827, and the structure was still unfinished in 1860, when the conflict began. -
Battle of Bull Run
It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. -
Monitor and Merrimack fight
most noted and arguably the most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies. It was fought over two days -
Battle of Shiloh
The Confederates achieved considerable success on the first day but were ultimately defeated on the second day. -
Antietam
first major battle of the American Civil War -
Emancipation Proclamation
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. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
It is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War. -
Chancellorsville
It is known as Lee's "perfect battle"[3] because of his risky but successful division of his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force. -
Stonewall Jackson killing
and probably the most well-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee -
Battle of Vicksburg
In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. -
West Virginia Becomes a State
is a state in the Appalachian and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, and Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast. -
Battle of Gettysburg
was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War -
Battle of Little Round Top
is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was the site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank -
Gettysburg Address
during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War. Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia -
Lincoln Election
one of the last major events in the American Civil War, took place on Good Friday when President Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre with his wife and two guests. -
13th Amendment
officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.