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Abraham Lincoln,
Abraham Lincoln was elected president, and they removed state Carolina from the united staes. Followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Then Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, They became the Confederate States of America. -
Civil War Begins
Confederate forces under General P.G.T. Beauregard bombard Major Robert Anderson and his Union soldiers at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War officially begins. -
First Battle of Bull Run.
General-in-Chief Winfield Scott tried to advance on the South before training his troops. Scott ordered General Irvin McDowell to advance on Confederate troops stationed at Manassas Junction, Virginia. McDowell attacked on July 21, and at first was succusfull, but the introduction of Confederate reinforcements resulted in a Southern victory and a chaotic retreat toward Washington by federal troops. -
General McDowell Is Replaced.
Lincoln thought the army needed moe organization and training, so he replaced McDowell with General George B. McClellan. -
Port Royal, South Carolina -- 1861-1862
Captain Samuel F. Dupont's warships silenced Confederate guns in Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard. This stoped General Thomas W. Sherman's troops to occupy first Port Royal and then all the famous Sea Islands of South Carolina. -
Moniter vs. Merrimack
The Confederate ironclad USS Merrimack battles the Union in Chesapeake Bay. The battle is a draw but it makes wooden ships obsolete and ushers in the era of steel warships, changing naval warfare forever. -
The Seven Days
Over the course of seven days of fighting, General Robert E. Lee attacks George McClellan's Union Army of the Potomac near Richmond, Virginia. Huge casualties cause McClellan to withdraw north towards Washington. -
Second Battle of Bull Run
The Second Battle of Bull Run is a resounding victory for Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. Union General John Pope is blamed for the loss and is relieved of his duties after the battle. -
Emancipation Proclamation.
Abriham Lincoln declared all slaves free, in areas still in rebellion. -
The Battle of Chancellorsville.
Union General Hooker crossed the Rappahannock River to attack General Lee's forces. Lee split his army, attacking a surprised Union army in three places and almost completely defeating them. Hooker withdrew across the Rappahannock River, giving the South a victory, but it was the Confederates' most costly victory in terms of casualties. -
The Gettysburg Campaign.
Confederate General Lee decided to take the war to the enemy. On June 13, he defeated Union forces at Winchester, Virginia, and continued north to Pennsylvania. General Hooker, who had been planning to attack Richmond, was instead forced to follow Lee. he was never comfortable with his commander, General Halleck, resigned on June 28, and General George Meade replaced him. -
The Battle of Chickamauga.
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 had control of the battlefield. -
Chattanooga
After Rosecrans's battle of Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863, Confederate General Braxton Bragg's army occupied the mountains that ring the vital railroad center of Chattanooga. -
Grant Takes Command
Lincoln appoints Ulysses S. Grant commander of all Union armies, -
Virginia Campaign
Aimed at ending the war, Ulysses S. Grant took 120,000 troops to south towards Richmond. Over the course of the next six weeks, a brutal war of attrition results in the deaths of almost 50,000 Union soldiers. -
Battle of the Wilderness
In the Battle of the Wilderness, thousands of men were burn to death in the woods. -
Battle of Spotsylvania
Continuing his advance, Union General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Robert E. Lee's Confederate forces at Spotsylvania. Grant loses more soldiers than Lee. Still, General Lee is forced to retreat south. -
Battle of Cold Harbor
The battle of Cold Harbor is a disaster for the Union. General Ulysses S. Grant makes a series of tactical mistakes that result in the deaths of 7,000 Union in twenty minutes. -
Battle of Nashville
The Confederate Army of the Tennessee is crushed by the Union Army of the Cumberland in Nashville. The war in the West is nearly over. -
Thirteenth Amendment Ends Slavery
The United States Congress approves the Thirteenth Amendment which will stop slavery -
Second Lincoln Inaugural
Lincoln is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States. -
Lincoln Shot
Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. -
Lincoln Dies by Assassination
Lincoln does not regain consciousness after being shot at Ford's Theater. He dies from his wound. -
Johnston Surrenders
General Joe Johnston, leading the largest Confederate Army still in existence, surrenders in North Carolina. -
Slavery Abolished
The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified by the States. Slavery is abolished.
