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Attack on Ft. Sumter
Lincoln decides to supply Ft. Sumter, but wants the South to fire the first shot. -
Bull Run (Manassas), 1st battle
Gen. McDowell leads 30,000 men against Gen. Johnston's 22,000 Southern troops in an attempt to crush the rebels and go "On to Richmond." South scores victory as Union troops flee back to Washinton in disarray. McDowell replaced by Gen. McClellan. -
Ft. Henry & Ft. Donelson
Gen. Grant captures two forts on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. Confederates forced out of Kentucky and yield much of Tennessee. -
Shiloh ( Pittsburgh Landing)
Grant overcomes Southen forces with heavy losses for each side: 13,000 Union casualites, 11,000 for South. -
New Orleans
Farragut seizes New Orleans for Union after boldy attacking Southern positon. 11 Southern ships sunk. -
Monitor Vs. Merrimack
First ironclad battle in history ends in a draw as the Merrimack withdraws after daylong exchange of fire. Union blockade of South is maintained. -
Start of Peninsular Campaign (Yorktown, Seven Days Battle, Fair Oaks)
After continual prodding by Lincoln, McClellan decides to attack Richmond via the South, He moves his arge army down the Potomac, marches on Richmond, and then assumes a defenisve position rater than pushing for voictory. Gen. Lee takes command of Southern troops. -
End of Peninsular Campaign
After continual prodding by Lincoln, McClellan decides to attack Richmond via the South. He moves his large army down the Potomac, marches on Richmond, and then assumes a defensive position rather than pushing for victory. Gen. Lee takes command of Southern troops. -
Bull Run (Manassas) 2nd battle
McClellan replaced by Gen. Pope. Lee and Gen. Stonewall Jackson defeat Union troops again at Manassas and Pope is replaced by McClellan -
Antietam
Heavily outnumbered, Lee's troops face McClellan in bloody fighting. Over 23,000 casualties (more than all previous American wars combined). Lee retreats to Virginia. -
Emancipation Proclamation
With victory at Antietam, Lincoln announces that on 1/1/63, all slaves in the rebelling states would be free. Does not affect border states. Forces European nations to recognize that choosing sides in the Civil War is to take a stand on slavery. -
Brith of Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust
She was born in New City On Setempter 18 1947. -
start of Catherine's education
When she started her education at Blue Ridge Country Day School. -
She wrote a letter
At the age of 9 she wrote a letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower decrying segregation. -
She went to college
The college she went to was Bryn Mawr. She got her bachelor’s degree in history, in the year 1968 From Bryn Mawr College. -
She went to the University of Penn.
she went to study American civilization at the University of Pennsylvania. She tried to get into the history program at the University, but they rejected her. -
She got married
Married her college sweetheart Stephen Faust and he was attending medical School in Pennsylvania. -
She got her master's degree
She later on became Annenberg Professor of History, after getting her master’s degree in 1971 and her doctoral degree in 1975. -
She remarried
In 1980, she married Charles Rosenberg, now Professor of the History of Science and Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences at Harvard and one of the nation’s leading historians of medicine and science. -
Her daughter
Together, they have one daughter, Jessica, born in 1982 -
Reevalute her life
In 1988, She was diagnosed with breast cancer, an event that caused her to reevaluate her life. -
more accomplishments
As a sign of her historical and professional accomplishments, Faust was elected to the Society of American Historians in 1993. -
Accomplishments
As a sign of her historical and professional accomplishments, Faust was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. -
Wrtiting books
While still at the University of Pennsylvania, she wrote several historical books about the Civil War topics, mainly about the lives of the Confederate women. Some of the books she wrote were The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South: A Women’s War. -
accomplishments
As a sign of her historical and professional accomplishments, Faust was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2004. -
elected 28th president of Harvard University
She was elected the 28th president of Harvard University on July 1, 2007, and she was formally installed on October 12, 2007. Also she was the first women to hold that position in the 371-year history at Harvard University.