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1st battle of Bull Run/Manassas Junction
30,000 inexperienced union troops attacked a smaller unexperienced confederate army. The union ended up retreating and ended up being a confederate victory. -
George B. McClellan named general of Army of Potomac
Since many northerners were shocked at the result Lincoln appointed McClellan as a new general. -
Battle of Shiloh/Pittsburgh Landing
It was a win for the union, They were commanded under general Ulysses S. Grant. Combined in this battle the 2 sides had 23,000 casualties. -
Emancipation Proclamation issued
This was a decree freeing all enslaved people in rebel territory. This was issued by Lincoln. This did not enslave a single person because it only applied to the Confederacy and had no power to enforce it there. -
Battle of Gettysburg
This was a fight that almost an accident. Lee hoped his army did not have to fight but they encountered the North there and was defeated. the souths casualties was 25,000 while the north's was 23,000. -
Surrender of Vicksburg
This happened the day Lee surrendered from Gettysburg, they had another big blow, Grant sieged this fort and as a result 19,000 soldiers died many of starvation or disease. -
Gettysburg Adress
This was a speech by Lincoln that honored the soldiers and the cause for which they died. Reactions to these speech were mixed in the press. Gettysburg was also dedicated Soldiers' National Cemetery. -
Sherman's march to the sea
He was a union general that commanded a bunch of destroyers to break the will of the south. They burned a bunch of Confederate cities on the way to the Atlantic Coast. He continued his path of destruction and join Grant's group in Richmond. It ended December 21 -
Lee surrenders to Grant
2 days earlier Grant wrote to Lee to surender but he believed he should still fight on. Then the Union captured a train carrying supplies to Lee's army. He then decided to surrender at Appomattox Court House. Grant offered his terms and Lee accepted them. -
Assassination of Lincoln
He was assasinated at Fords Theater while watching a play called Our American Cousin.He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who was a famous actor. Afterwards Booth jumped out of the box trying to flee.
