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south carolina breaks away from the union.
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mississippi broke away from the union
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Abe Lincoln wins the popular and electoral votes
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the confederates attacked and captured Fort Sumter
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Jefferson Davis was appointed as the confederate president.
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washington d.c. had strong southern character
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virginia splits in two . west virginia and virginia
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Alabama, located in the heart of the cotton-producing South, became the third state to secede from the Union in January 1861.
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On March 8, 1862, the Virginia destroyed two Union warships and ran the frigate Minnesota aground off Hampton Roads. the USS Merrimac,USS Monitor faught here
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n April 1862, some 100,000 Union troops under George B. McClellan arrived in Virginia, planning to move on the Confederate capital of Richmond via the peninsula formed by the York and James Rivers.
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In early 1862, Union forces launched an attack against two Confederate forts located on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, near the Kentucky-Tennessee border.
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this was the bloodiest single day battle of the war. the souths Robert E. Lee faced off against George McClellan.
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the Army of the Potomac, crossed the Rappahannock River into Virginia with more than 120,000 troops in December 1862, confronting 80,000 of Robert E. Lee's Confederates at Fredericksburg on December 13
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Stonewall Jackson was shot and killed by his own troops.
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On June 9, they caught Stuart's 9,500 men off-guard in a surprise attack, this was the largest calvery battle of the war.
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the bloodiest battle of the civil war. There were 51,000 casualties in three days. Confederate General Robert E. Lee was going up against Union General George Meade.
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On November 25, Union forces overcame the heavily fortified Confederate position on Missionary Ridge, forcing Bragg's retreat into Georgia.
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for 12 days there was blood fighting 18,000 ubion casualties and 11,000 confederate casualties.
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sherman relied on them heavily on his march to the sea
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In June 1864, Union forces began a siege of Petersburg, a railroad crossing 23 miles south of Richmond, as well as the Confederate capital itself.Greatly outnumbered, Robert E. Lee's Confederates managed to maintain control of both cities. By early 1865, they were growing increasingly hungry and exhausted due to reduced supply lines.
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confederates lost the city to Sherman on september second.
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By August 1864, Alabama's Mobile Bay was the last major Confederate port left open on the Gulf of Mexico.After a Confederate mine sunk the monitor Tecumseh, Farragut climbed the mast of his flagship, the Hartford, and urged his fleet on with a cry of "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
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amphibious assult on confederate stronghold
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tennesse adopted a new constitution abolishing slavery
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lincoln is sworn into a second term in office
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the Confederate states of america starts useing african american troops.
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jefferson davis and cabinet flee richmond.
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rejects veto and gives equil rights to all US
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approves minting of the nickel
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Congress passes the 14th amendment
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tennesse becomes the first state re-admited to the union.
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first person to be a five star general
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african americans gain the right to vote in DC
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Nebraska is admitted as the 37th state
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first raised railroad started in NY. hepled reconstruction
