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Repeated attempts to resupply fort sumter were derailed by Confederate forces
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On June 20th 1861 West Virginia was born. However they decided not to secede. Like the rest of the stae and thus west virgina was born.
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Due to Public Demand General-in-chief- Winfield Scott was forced to advance on the south before adequetly training his troops
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A sudden realization of the threat of a protracted war Lincoln replaced mcDowell with general George B. McClellan
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On january 27th 1862 President Lincoln ordered the launch of war with his union troops fighting confederate troops
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Confederate general Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson defeats union forces at Shenandoah Valley
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General Quincy A. Gilmore attacked fort pullaski and destroyed its forces within 2 days
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On July 11, Major-General Henry Halleck was named general-in-chief of the Union army
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Due to recruiting difficulties an act was passed making all men between the ages of 20 and 45 liable to be called for military service. Though this could be avoided by paying a fine or finding a substitute. A riot broke out in new York for protest. It should be noted this also provided a similar reaction in the South
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Confederate General Lee decided to take the fight to the enemy
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On September 19, Union and Confederate forces met on the Tennessee-Georgia border, near Chickamauga Creek. After the battle, Union forces retreated to Chattanooga, and the Confederacy maintained control of the battlefield.
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All was quiet beyond the Rappahannock, but there was a rich harvest for the photographers. Some photographs date from December 1863.
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General Grant continued to attack Lee. At Spotsylvania Court House, he fought for five days, vowing to fight all summer if necessary
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General Grant, promoted to commander of the Union armies, planned to engage Lee's forces in Virginia until they were destroyed
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Confederate General Jubal Early led his forces into Maryland to relieve the pressure on Lee's army. Early got within five miles of Washington, D.C., but on July 13, he was driven back to Virginia.
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The Republican party nominated President Abraham Lincoln as its presidential candidate, and Andrew Johnson for vice-president. The Democratic party chose General George B. McClellan for president, and George Pendleton for vice-president.
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Transportation problems and successful blockades caused severe shortages of food and supplies in the South. Starving soldiers began to desert Lee's forces, and although President Jefferson Davis approved the arming of slaves as a means of augmenting the shrinking army, the measure was never put into effect.
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Union General Sherman moved from Georgia through South Carolina, destroying almost everything in his path.
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R.E Lee surrendered his forces to U.S. Grant at Appomaltox Courthouse On April 9th 1865
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On April 14, as President Lincoln was watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland obsessed with avenging the Confederate defeat. Lincoln died the next morning.
