Civil war soldiers

Civil War

By brady1492

  • Lincoln is Elected

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas Secede

    • begin to seize federal property

  • Fort Sumter: Beginning of Civil War

  • Voluntary Draft Needed in North

  • Davis/Stephens Elected as Confederacy Pres/VP

  • Trent Affair

    • Wilkes (U) stops British vessel (thinks that they are with Confederates) (kind of are - Slidell, Mason are hiding on it!)
    • brings them back to Boston (violating maritime law)
    • US eventually apologizes

  • New Orleans Captured by Union

    • TURNING POINT
    • begins to isolate South

  • Confiscation Acts

    • frees slaves used for insurrections, later frees all slaves of those in favor of slavery

  • Battle of Antietam

    Lee retreats, so Union kind of wins. Bloodiest day of battle.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    • frees all slaves in Confederacy (does not apply to border slave states that never seceded)
    • formally signed on 1 January 1863

  • BATTLES OF 1862

    • Grant forces Southern troops out of Kentucky/Tennessee
    • Union victory @ Shiloh
    • Union victory @ Mufreesboro
    • Second Battle of Bull Run (Union retreat)
    • Battle of Fredericksburg

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Vicksburg Surrender

  • Draft Needed in North

    • leads to riots in North (many don't want to fight for slavery)

  • Battle of Wilderness

  • Sherman Captures Atlanta

    • begins March to the Sea

  • Lincoln wins 1864 Election

    • vs. McClellan (D)
    • Union victories help popularity

  • Grant Appointed as Union Commander of Armies

    • first successful one after 3 others offered position
    • out to damage resources
    • Lee appointed as Confederate general

  • Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse

  • 13th Amendment Ratified

    • abolishes slavery

  • End of War, Beginning of Reconstruction