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The American Civil War
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The election of 1860
When Lincoln was inagurated as the first republican as the first Republican in March 1861, it was not at all clear that he would employ military means to challenge, the secession of south carolina and the other states. -
Ulysses S. Grant
He sought to win control of the Mississippi Valley. In February 1862 he took Fort Henry and attacked Fort Donelson . When the Confederate commander asked for terms, Grant replied, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." The Confederates surrendered, and President Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers. -
Fort Sumter
The most critical status of the two forts in the south that there was federal troops but claimed by seceded states.Lincoln announced that he was sending provisions of food to the small federal garrison.He thus gave the south carolina the choice either permitting the fort or open firer so they fired on fort sumter in april. -
Robert E. Lee
Repairing to Richmond, he was made Commander-In-Chief of the Virginia state forces, and in May, 1861, when the Confederate government was removed from Montgomery to Richmond, he was appointed a full general under that government. During the early months of the war he served inconspicuously in the western part of Virginia. In the autumn Lee was sent to the coast of South Carolina, where he planned, and in part constructed, the defensive lines that successfully resisted all efforts directed agains -
winfield scott and the anaconda plan
About May 3 Scott told his protégé, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, that he believed an effective "Blockade" of Southern ports, a strong thrust down the Mississippi Valley with a large force, and the establishment of a line of strong Federal positions there would isolate the disorganized Confederate nation "and bring it to terms." Contemporary sources said McClellan called it Scott's "boa-constrictor" plan. 1861. -
Battle of Bull Rune
The first major battle of the war 30,000 federal troops marched from whashington D.C to attack confederate forces positioned near Bull Run Creek at Manassas junction in Virginia. Just as the union was about ot win General Thomas Jackson counter-attacked and sent the inexperienced union soldiers in a disorderly and panicky flight back to Whashington D.C. -
jefferson davis
Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America and commander-in-chief of the army and navy, belongs to history, and his career is subject to full and fair treatment by just and intelligent men. The failure of his government to establish itself in permanency by the power of its armies will not be accepted as evidence against his own right to be reverenced, except by such persons as those who regard the triumphs of superior over inferior force as decisive of merit. -
Monitor and Merrimac
two American warships that fought the first engagement between ironclad ships. When, at the beginning of the Civil War, the Union forces abandoned the Norfolk Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Virginia, they scuttled the powerful steam frigate Merrimack. She was subsequently raised by the Confederates, converted into an ironclad, and renamed the Virginia. -
Battle of Antietam
The Union army intercepted the invading confederate at Atietam Creek in Maryland town of Sharpsburg. Here the bloodiest single day of combat in the entire war took place,a day in which over 22,000 men were either killed or wounded -
emancipation proclamation
it immediatley 50,000 of the freed slaves as the union army advanced on sept. 22,1862 he would announced a official emancipation -
Battle of Fredricksburg
On Nov. 5 MeClellan was relieved of command, and general Burnside was put in his place. A sense of responsibility made the latter commander exceedingly cautious. Before he moved he endeavored to get his 120,000 men well in hand. Aquia Creek was made his base of supplies, and he moved the army towards Fredericksburg on Nov. 10. Sumner led the movement down the left bank of the Rappahannock. -
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned a colonel in the Virginia forces and dispatched to Harpers Ferry where he was active in organizing the raw recruits until relieved by Joe Johnston. His later assignments included: commanding lst Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah (May - July 20, 1861); brigadier general, CSA June 17, 1861); commanding 1st Brigade, 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac July 20 - October 1861); major general, CSA (October 7, 1861); commanding Valley District, Department -
battle of gettysburg
was in pennsylvania,gettysburg the most largest casualties in the american civil war described by the turning point of the war.
