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The Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 set the stage for the Civil War.The nation was divided throughout most of the 1850s on questions of states rights and slavery in the territories. -
Fort Sumter
The first battle of the Civil War. When Fort Sumter was cut off from vital supplies and reinforcements by the south. Lincon replied to this by announcing that he was going to send supplies of food to the fort. Lincon gave South Carolina the choice to let the fort hold out or to open fire with its shore batteries. The Southeners opened fire therefore, on April 12, 1861 the war began. -
Battle of Bull Run
in the American Civil War, two engagements fought in the summers of 1861 and 1862 at a small stream named Bull Run, both battles gave military advantage to the Confederacy. -
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most well-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee.[3] His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, which the general survived. -
Robert E. Lee
Was a career United States Army officer and combat engineer. He became the commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War and a postwar icon of the South's "lost cause." -
Monitor and Merrimac
Monitor and Merrimac was fought over two days, March 8–9, 1862, in Hampton Roads. -
Battle of Antietam
After his victory at bull run General Robert E. Lee let his army in to the enemy territory of Maryland. He wanted the British to give official recognition and support to the confederacy because of their victory in the north.At this timeMcClellan knew Lee's plan and intercepted the confederates at Antietam creek. This was considered one of the bloodiest days of combat in the Civil war. -
George McClellan
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Battle of Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, -
Emancipation Proclamation
An executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War under his war powers.Proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced.The document was signed and issued January 1, 1863 -
Battle of Vicksburg
The final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. 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. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. After 2 assaultsGrant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, by the town of Gettysburg. This Battle had the most casualties out of any battle in the American Civil War and was considered the Turning Point of the Civil War. -
Gettysburg Address
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Sherman's March
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Appomattox Court House
This is where Ulysses S Grant surrendered after he retreated from richmond. -
Lincoln's Assassination
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was carried out on Good Friday, April 14, 1865. Lincoln died from the gun shot wound the next day. Happened just six days after the large-scale surrender of Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee to Union General U. S. Grant.
