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Attach on fort sumter
.President Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. After a 34-hour exchange of artillery fire, Anderson and 86 soldiers surrendered the fort on April 13. -
election of Abraham lincoln
The Election of Abraham Lincoln was perhaps the most significant election in American history.It brought Lincoln power at a time of great national crisis,as the country was coming apart over the issue of slavery -
battle of hampton road
The Battle of Hampton Roads, aka the Battle of the Ironclads (Monitor and Merrimack), was fought March 8-9, 1862 near Hampton Roads, Virginia. It is the most famous naval battle of the American Civil War, pitting the nation’s first ironclad ships against each other. -
Battle of antietam
Battle of Antietam,also called battle of sharpsburg,(1861-65) that halted the confederate advance on Maryland for the purpose of gainig military supplies -
battle of stone river
Battle of stones river, also called battle of Murfreesboro,(December 31,1862- January 2,1863), bloody but indecisive American civil war clash in Tennessee that was a psychological victory for union forces -
Battle of vicksburg
From the spring of 1862 until July 1863,during the American civil war, Union forces waged a campaign to take the confederate stronghold of Vicks, Mississippi,which lay on the east bank of the Mississippi,rivier,halfway between Memphis to the northland new Orleans to the south. -
battle of gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3,1863,is considered the most important engagement of the American civil war. After a great victory over union forces at Chancellorsville, general Robert e.lee arched his army of northen virgina into Pennsylvania in late june 1863. -
Sherman begins march to the sea
On this day in 1864,Union general William t.sherman begins his expiation across gerogia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away his supply lines. For the next six weeks, Sherman army destroyed most of the sate before capturing the conferdrate seaport of savannah,georgia. -
appomattox courthouse
Appomattox court house national historical park,where confederate army commander Robert e. lee surrenderd to union commander Ulysses s. grant in the American civil war -
Lincoln Assassination
Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. He was mortally wounded by john Wilkes booth in the president box of ford's theater in Washington d.c while watching the comedy,our American cousin.
