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Election of Lincon
The election of Abraham Linvon was on November 6 1860 and was between 1 republican, a Constitutional Union canadiate, and 2 democrats all running for president. At the time the democratic party dissagreed on many issues so they split the party inhalf. This resulted in the democratic votes being split inhalf, alowing Lincon to get 40% of the votes, in the end he beat Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Norther Democrat Stephen Douglas. -
TX Secedes from Union
Texas secedes from Union becasue they claimed that the Federal Government has failed to accomplish the purposes of the compact of union between these States. Texas had a vote wheather or not to sucede from the union the vote was 166-8. Sam Houston was one of those 8 votes because he knew for a fact that Texas leaving the union would cause a war. Texas secedes anyway creating the Confederacy. -
Houston kicked out of office
Sam Houston was kicked out of office for not pleding an oath to the new president in texas, beacuse he thought that Texas withdrawing from the Union would start a war. He even voted against withdrawing from texas in a 166-8 vote. He never liked the idea but stayed in office to see if he could do anything more, but Texas had a different idea. Then shorthly after he was kicked. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
When South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860 United States Maj. Robert Anderson and his force of 85 soldiers were positioned at Fort Moultrie near the mouth of Charleston Harbor. On December 26. So they moved to Fort Summer but only had a 6 week supply of food. On April 12 1861 confedrate troops open fired on the union this continued for 34 hours. On april 13 the Confederacy serrendered. This was th first fight that would lead to way more. -
Battle of Galveston
When the union took controll of Galveston the confederacy was not so happy. They put together a plan to make the union soldies leave. They attacked my land and on sea. The confederate soldiers had cotton in their ships that did a very good job stopping bullets. In the end the confederatecy drove the union soliders away but the Union still had a blockade up near the river so Texas couldnt get imports from around the worl and counldnt sell things. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, After a victory at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. They clashed with the Union soldiers once again, Lee ordered his troops to charge the Union left and right if was affective known as the Pickett’s Charge. Soon they fell back, the chrage was no longer working, It cost them 28000 of rebel casualties. Lee fell back toward Virginia on July 4. Toatal men that died 51000. -
Battle of Sabine Pass
The union solderis were ordered to take over Fort Griffin. They sailed through the Sabine Pass, and started to fire. The confederacy returned fire with gun-man and 5 cannons. The confederacy took down the first ship and the others could not get through. Many men retreted and abandoned ship. The confederacy took 300 union soldiers captive and 2 of the Unions gun boats. -
Red River Campaign
March 10 – May 22, 1864. The target of the campaign was Shreveport, the capital of Confederate Louisiana and the headquarters for the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. The Union put together an army with 10000 of its best vertans, totaling 27000 troops in all and 90 ships. The Union hoped to capture everything along the Red River in Louisiana and continue into Texas. The campaign was deemed a failure--it drew Union strength away and never even reached its goal. -
End of Civil War
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, was the one to sign the surrender form offered by the Union bringing a formal end to the bloodiest four years in U.S. history.Four long years later, the Confederacy was defeated at the total cost of 620,000 Union and Confederate dead. All Confederacy states were then put back into the US and the battle had finally ended. -
Battle of Palmito Ranch
On May 13, 1865, more than a month after the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Early in the war the Union army had briefly occupied Brownsville but had been unable to hold the city. The superiors refused to sanction the attack. Instead, Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace sought and received Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's permission to meet the Confederate commanders of the Brownsville area, they dicussed an oath for the confederacy to rejoin the US. They aggreded and Texas was soon going to rejoin The US. -
Juneteenth
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. After many battles all because of politics and slavery. Slavery finally became illegal June 19 1865 in Texas. They sent a letter, General Order #3 stated that all slaves in Texas had been set free, and that they will have equal rights, and that all slave owners are going to talk to their past slaves to see if they would still like to work but for money and can leave when ever. -
Reconstruction Ends
A fight between the North and the South had started again. When blacks earned the right to vote. Most notorious was the Ku Klux Klan, an organization of violent criminals that established a reign of terror in some parts of the South, assaulting and murdering local Republican leaders. In 1871 and 1872 federal marsheals brought down the group But the North's commitment to Reconstruction soon waned. Many Republicans believed that the South should solve its own problems without Washington.
