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When Lincoln is elected president many states wanted to secede.
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After S. Carolina secedes other southern states begin to secede from the Union.
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Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard commands Maj. Robert Anderson to surrnder Fort Sumter.
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Fort Sumter surrendered on April 14, 1861 and so Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers and two million men would serve in the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corp during the war.
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Arkansas, Tennesse, and North Carolina follows five weeks later
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becomes commander of the confederate army after he declined to be the commander for the Union Army.
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The first major land battle of the armies in Virginia.
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Becomes the Commander of the Union Army till March 7th 1862 when he loses command and is replaced General Ambrose Burnside.
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10 days later Fort Donelson is captured.
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attacked 10 days after Fort Henry is captured
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Started in the morning of March 8 and ended March 9th
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The Battle of Shiloh ends the very next day, April 7th, 1862.
Gen. Johnston is shot killed by a stray bullet. -
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August 28-30 1862
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Becomes general of the Union Army after McClellan was fired till he was replaced by General Joseph Hooker
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The Battle of Chancellorsville starts on April 26 and ends Mat1 1863
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Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made several attempts to take Vicksburg. They investedthe city and entrapped a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton.The Union won this battle.
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The army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac meet and battle each other. More men fought and were killed. The battle starts July 1st and ends July 3rd 1863.
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begins on June 15 and ends on April 2 1865
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Gen. John Bell Hood was determined to capture the army of Tennessee. The Union was the victor of the battle.
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The army of Gen. Thomas attacked the Confederate army and fought till it got dark.
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General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. He surrenders at the home of Wilmer and Virginia McLean at Appomattox Court House , Virginia.
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Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending to the play,a comedy, "Our American Cousin," with his wife,Mary Todd Lincoln ,and Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancee, Clara Harris
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Joseph E. Johnston surrenders at the Bennett House near Durham Station, North Carolina.
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Section 1: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2: Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
