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Confederates attacked Fort Sumter before supplies could arrive. Confederate guns opened fire on April 12, 1861
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The Union surrendered the fort. Despite heavy cannon fire, no one had died
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The battle that starts off the war that takes place in northern Virginia, near a small river called Bull Run.
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The Union captures Fort Henry in a succesful effort to control the mississipi river and rivers that branch off of it
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The Confederates created an Iron clad called the Virginia to attack the union but the Union had their own iron clad called the Monitor.
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Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard led Confederate forces in a surprise attack that caused a battle which lasted two days.
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Union naval forces under David Farragut captured New Orleans, Louisiana, the largest city in the South.
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The Union was trying to capture the Confederacy's capital at Richmond, Virginia. Close to the Union. Confederate armies fought hard to defend it
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General Ambrose Burnside (shown above) marched his troops toward the Confederate capital at Richmond. Lee intercepted the Union army near Fredericksburg.
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Lee met Union forces led by General Joseph Hooker in the Battle of Chancellorsville. Although Hooker had twice as many men, Lee divided his forces. Confederate troops confronted the main Union force.
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The Confederates turned back General George B. McClellan at the Seven Days' Battle, General John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run, and General Ambrose Burnside at Fredericksburg. Lee's army defeated a Union force twice its size at Chancellorsville, Virginia,
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Lee and his troops defended the town of Richmond, but sickness, casualties, and desertion weakened them. Finally, on April 2, 1865, the Confederate lines broke and Lee withdrew.
