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Jefferson Davis
The confederate states of america is formed when Jefferson Davis a West Point graduate and former U.S Army officer, as president -
President
Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States during the Civil War. -
Battle starts
The war began at fort Sumter -
Pierre Beauregard
At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins. -
Population
The union has 21 states with over 20 million people and the confederates had 9 million soldiers and 4 million -
Union suffers a defeat
The Union Army under Gen. Irvin McDowell suffers a loss at Bull Run about 25 miles southwest of Washington The Confederate Gen. Thomas J. Jackson earns the nickname "Stonewall" as his resists to union attacks. That is when President Lincoln realizes the war will be long. -
The replacement of McDowell
President Lincoln appoints George B, McClellan as the commander of the department of the Potomac. -
Victory for Gen. Ulysses S.Grant
Grant in Tennessee, capturing fort Henry and ten days late capturing fort do nelson. Grant earns the nickname Unconditional Surrender grant. -
President Lincoln Struck with grief.
Lincoln is struck with grief as his eleven-year-old son, Willie, dies from fever caused by polluted drinking water in the white house. -
Confederates surprise attack
The confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grants unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee river results in a bitter struggle with over 13,000 Union killed and wounded and over 10,000 confederates. The president is then pressured to relieve grant but resists, he says "I can't spare this man; he fights," Lincoln says. -
Freeing all slaves in territories
President Lincoln issues the final emancipation proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by confederates and emphasizes the enlisting of black soldiers in the union army the union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery. -
President Lincoln was assassinated
President Lincoln was shot in a theater by john wiles -
Confederates surrender.
The Nation is reunited as the civil war ends over 620,000 Americans died in the war with disease and begin killed in war only about 50,000 survivors return home. -
The war is over
December 6, 1865 the thirteenth amendment to the united states constitution passed by congress on January 31 1865 is finally ratified slavery is abolished
