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Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the Unite State over a deeply divided Democratic party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, constitutional Union candidates John Bell and northern democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S senator for Illinois. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter wa the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, sout Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United states Army that started the American civil war. -
Battle of Hampton Road
The Battle of Hampton Roads, often referred to as either the battle of Monitor and Merrimack ( or Virginia) or battle of ironclad, was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American civil war from the stand point of the development navies. -
The Batlle of Antietam
The battle of Antietam, also known a the Battle of Sharpsburg particularly in the south, was fought in September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland campaign. -
Battle of Stones River
This was fought In Middle Tennessee as the culmination of the Stones River campaign in the Western Theater of the American Civil War -
Battle of Vicksburg
In May Jun of 1863, Maj. gun Ulysses s. Grant's armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a confederate army under Lt. Gen John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operation. This was the Culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
Sherman Begins March to the sea
This was more formally known as savannah Campaign was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj . Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
Appomattox Courthouse
This was fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battle of the American Civil War. it was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E . Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army. -
Lincoln Assassination
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the united states, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C .
