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Secession of South Carolina
An ordiance to dissolve the union between the state of South Carolina and other state or the South Carolina of session. The document that south carolina has repeled the constiution and its amendments diassociated itself from United States of American. -
Formation of the Confederate States
The formation of the confederate states of American occured in March when the seven seceded states signed the New constitution.when General P. G. T. Beauregard and a group of cadets from The Citadel fired on Fort Sumpter in Charleston Bay. -
Firing on Fort Sumter
Brig. Gen. Beauregard, in command of the provisional Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina, demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. -
First Battle of Bull Run
On the day of the battle, carriages filled with spectators eager to see the Confederate defeat flocked from Washington to the battle site. The union army finally reach his objective and emcamped along a small stream call the Bull Run. -
Battle of Antietam
They marked the culminaton of the confederate General Robert E. Lee first invasion of the Northern States. The Potomac River the great general daringly divided his men sending half of them, under the command of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, to capture the Union garrison at Harper's Ferry. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of bloody Civil War .Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of Americans and fundamentally transformed the character of the war. -
Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg
Unfortunately for them, by the summer of 1863 the superior industrial might of the North, as well as its greater manpower, had finally been harnessed for the war effort. After Gettysburg and Vicksburg, that advantage would be employed to pound the Confederacy into submissiom. -
Gettysburg Address
The dedication of a military cemetery of Gettysburg Pennsyvania, during the American Civil War.President Abraham Lincoln delivers one of the most memorable speeches in American history. -
Reelection of Abraham Lincoln
Northern voters overwhelmingly endose the leadership and policies of President Abraham Lincoln when they elect him to the second term. Lincoln faced many challenges to his presidency. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
The surrender meeting was between Gerneral Robert E. Lee, C.S.A. and Lt. and General Ulysses S. Grant, U.S.A. Surrender Commissioners meeting, and as the headquarters of Major General John Gibbon, U.S.A.
