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Cause of Cival War
Fort Sumter: Jefferson Davis ordered the Confederate forces to capture it. After only two days, the fort was captured. This was the start of the Civil War. Along with states' rights, economic differences, westward expansion, slaves, and Lincoln's election. -
Bull Run to Antietam
The Battle of Bull Run resulted in a Confederate victory. This resulted in the Union Army retreating to Washington, DC. Commander Geroge McClellan was ordered to attack in the spring of 1862. McClellan invaded Virginia, but was defeated by General Robert E. Lee, and retreated back to Washington. -
The Trent Incident
A British Vessel called the Trent, located in the Caribbean. Two confederate were on the vessel heading towards Europe, but Union officers seized them and took them to Boston. Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert and the American Secretary of State, William Seward found a diplomatic solution to prevent a war. The US apologized and released the two men. The crisis had passed with the men continuing to Europe. -
Antietam
The Confederate Army was planning on proceeding north to capture Washington, DC. Union scouts found a copy of Lee's plans, so at Antietam, Maryland, the Union Army stopped the Confederate advance, and Lee retreated leaving it a Union victory. -
Emancipation
Lincoln relized that the main cause of the Cival War were slaves. Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation four moths ago, that slaves would be free, unless the rebellious states laid down their arms. This failed to happen, so on January 1 Lincoln signed the final Emancipation Proclamation, stating that 3 million slaves in the South were free. -
Gettysburg
General Lee planned another invasion to the North, and met a Union Army led by General Gerorge Meade. The battle lasted three days, with Lee advancing until the third day. Lee led an assult called Pickett's Charge, which resulted in 28, 000 casualties and 23, 000 casualties lost from the Union Army. This resulted in the Unions victory. -
Vicksburg
General Grant captured the Confederate fortress of Vicksburg. The Union Army now controlled the entire Mississippi River, resulting in the Union's victory. -
Reconstruction of the South
Lincoln's plan to rebuild the South began in Louisiana. His plan was to over incentives to thos states wishing to rejoin the union. As soon as 10% of the voters in the state swore an oath of loyalty to the United States and accepting emancipation, they could elect a state government and be re-admitted into the Union. -
Clara Barton
In early 1864, President Lincoln asked Clara Barton to help in tracing the thousands of missing Union soldiers. She was given the position of superintendant of Union nurses. -
Atlanta
General William Sherman led the Union army into capturing Atlanta. He burned it down along with destroying everything else in his path until the Atlantic Port of Savannah. Everything went accorging to Sherman's plan, as the destruction costed over $100 million ($1.4 billion in today's economy). -
The End of the War
When Grant's army was closing in on Richmond, the Confederate capital, President Davis and General Lee knew they were going to be defeated, so the resorted into using slaves to fight. But it was too late, since Lee abandoned Richmond along with the Confederate government. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. After all of the battles, the war ended with the Union army winning. -
Lincoln's assassination
President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. He was a Confederate sympathizer who wanted to avenge the South's defeat.
