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Begining of Civil War
The Civil War started because the North and the South couldn’t agree on slavery. The North didn’t want slavery and the South did. -
Battle of Bull Run
30,000 inexperienced Union troops attacked an equally inexperienced Confederate force. The fighting took place in northern Virginia. The Confederate attacked and the Union fled. -
Battle of Shiloh
This battle lasted two days. It was one of the bloodiest battles, and there were more than 23,000 casualties. After a brutal battle the Union won. -
Battle of Antietam
took place on Union soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties on both sides -
Battle of Fredricksburg
it was between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. The Union army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates. The Union lost again. -
Emancipation Proclamation was Issued
directed only to the states that seceded from the Union, It was based on the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces; it was not a law passed by Congress -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Sedgwick withdrew across the ford early on May 5, and Hooker withdrew the remainder of his army across U.S. Ford the night of May 5–6. The campaign ended on May 7 when Stoneman's cavalry reached Union lines east of Richmond. -
Battle of Gettysburg
two armies initially collided at Gettysburg. Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it. Low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division under Brig. Gen. John Buford, and soon reinforced with two corps of Union infantry. However, two large Confederate corps assaulted them from the northwest and north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the stree -
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, considered one of the most well known in American history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg -
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
