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Battle of Fort Sumter
The surrender of Fort Sumter
The battel at Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War. -
Lincoln orders blockade of the south
The navy made a serious effort, along the Gulf Coast to prevent goods, supplies and arms to the confederate. It was important because they had to stop the supply of arms to weaken the confederate soldiers. -
1st Battle of Bull Run (or you may see if called Manassas)
the battle of bull run was a major wake up call to the Nor
Union forces were routed by beuregaurds forces
This was an indication that this would be a long and bloody war and would require new leadership, and improved training to prepare the federal troops for sustained action in the field. -
Monitor vs. Virginia naval battle
This was the most important Naval Battle of the civil war
The confederates tried to break the blockade that the union had put up.
The first Ironclad warships were used in this war -
Battle of shiloh
13,047killed
Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (union general for this battle)
Confederates retreated at the end of the day
Union army won this battle -
7 Days Campaign
Seven major battles over the seven days from June 26 to July in Tullahoma, Tennesee. The series of battles is sometimes known erroneously as the Seven Days Campaign, but it was actually the culmination of the peninsula campaign, not a actual campeign. -
Antietam
First Major battle of the Civil War on Union land.
It was the worse bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
22,717 dead -
Emancipation Proclamation issued
The Emancipation Proclaimation announced that if the rebels did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union, all the slaves in the rebelious states would be free. -
Chancellorsville
Chancellorsville is known as Lee's "perfect battle" because his risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force resulted in a significant Confederate victory. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Confederate Gen. Lee concentrated his forces around Gettysburg upon the approach of Union Gen. George G. Meade’s forces
28,000 Confederate men died
23,000 Union men died
Union stopped the confederates on their invasion of the north. -
Siege of Vicksburg
Was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the Civil War.
Union soldiers crossed the Mssissippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
Gettysburg Address
Best known speech in American history, given by President Lincoln
In just over two minutes, Lincoln the principles of human equality stated in the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis, with "a new birth of freedom,"that would bring true equality to all of its citizens. -
Battle of Chattanooga
Confederate forces split
Two artillery batteries came up to open fire on the Rebel troops and the town and sent infantry to the river bank to act as sharpshooters -
Sherman Captures Atlanta
Atlanta was the rail supply of the Confederates
Atlanta went up in flames, Sherman continued his march -
Abraham Lincoln Re-elected
He was re elected becasue of his work on the Emancipation Proclaimation.
And because he did so well on winning the war. -
Sherman begins march to the sea
It was the battle for Savannah, Georgia
Gen. Sherman's forces destroyed military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property. -
Union Army moves in and occupies Richmond, VA.
Political home of the Confederates-
Military hospital and Prisons
Grain milling and Iron Manufacturing -
Lee Surrenders
Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surviving Confederate force in North Carolina, and harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option.
Important because it ended the Civil War!!! -
Abraham lincon Shot and Killed
The Civil war was almost over
Assasinated 5 days after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant
This is important because he was the leader of the war, he worked so hard to try to end slavery he got shot for it. -
13th amendment
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" Important because now the slaves are free -
Ulysses S. Grant takes over the Union Army
Won control of the mississippi.
Captured Vicksberg, the key city on the mississippi.
Grant wrote generous terms of surrender that helped to begin the process of uniting the nation again.
