Chapter 16

By johnsonjai

  • Fort Sumter

    federal outpost was attacked by Confederate troops

  • Lincoln

    ordered General Irvin McDowell to lead his 35,000-man army from the Union capital

  • Confederate troops

    all arrived

  • Union detachment

    turned back a Confederate force at Glorieta Pass

  • Grant's capture

    captured Fort Henry on Tennessee River

  • Grant

    led an assault force into Tennessee

  • Battle of Shiloh

    Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley

  • Warships

    made their daring dash

  • McCleellan's force

    poised outside Richmond

  • Lee attack

    attacked launching a series of clashes known as Seven Days Battle

  • Lee

    strengthed his positions

  • Confederate soldiers

    began crossing into Maryland

  • The two armies

    met along Antietam Creek in Maryland, battle lasted for hours

  • Emancipation Proclaimination

    Lincoln issued it

  • West Virginia

    set up its own state government