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Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861 to April 14, 1861
President Lincoln sends a ship to resupply the federal fort. Believing the ship had troops and weapons, the Confederacy fired on the fort. Due to the attack on the fort, Lincoln calls up 75,000 troops and some of the border states, such as Virginia, secede. -
First Bull Run
July 21, 1861 to July 22, 1861
President Abraham Lincoln ordered Brigadier General Irvin McDowell to make an offence to the enemy making a quick end to the war. The "rebel yell” as they named it was used when the Confederates broke the line of the Union. The First Battle of Bull Run was called the First Manassas in thIt caused more than 3,000 deaths in the Union compared to 1,750 in the Confederates. -
Hampton Roads
March 9, 1862
The Battle of Hampton Roads were fought between the Monitor and Merrimack. The Monitor had16 crewmen that were lost during a gale off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on December 31, 1862. In 2002 marine salvagers raised the ship's gun turret and other artifacts from the wreckage. -
Shiloh
April 6, 1862 to April 7, 1862
The Battle of Shiloh was also known as te Battle of Pittsburgh landing. It started with the Confederate generals putting a suprise attack against Ulysses S. Grant's forces in southwestern Tennessee.General Johnston seized an attack on Grant before his troops could get more supplies. The Union had won this battle but they were all immobilized for a few weeks becasue each side had lost about 10,000 men -
Antietam
September 17, 1862 to September 18, 1862
Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced eachother in the first battle of the American Civil war on northern grounds. This battle was and still is concidered the bloodest battle in American History. General Lee has selected his battle gound at farmer David Miller's thirty-acre cornfield. Only four hours of fighting Out of 38,000 men 10,318 had died on Lee's side and 12,401 men died out of 75,000 men on McClellan's side -
Frederiksburgh
December 13, 1862
General Lee ordered his troops to dig in the hills in position before Ambrose Burnside's army could arive.They were supposed to cross the Rappahannock River but it was too deep and he had to wait for pontoon bridges.The Union suffered almost 13,000 Casualities while the Confederates had fewer than 5,000.The Confederates had won this battle. Burnside took all blame for the looss of this battle.Lincoln soon named Joseph Hooker to replace Burnside as commander of the Army of the P -
Chancellorsville
April 30, 1863 to May 6, 1863
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was one of Hookers most trusted generals. He was wounded by fire crossing the Rappahannock River. They fought in Virginia in the wilderness where Chancellorsville was General Robert E. Lee's greatest defensive victory. The Union lost 17,278 men while the Confederates lost 12,826 including Jackson. -
Gettysburg
July 1, 1863 to July 3, 1863
On July 1, 1863 General Lee assembled his troops 35 miles southwest of Harrisburg, Pa. had been set up the previous day. The next day Longstreet got his men lined up at 4 p.m. Both sides had lost over 9,000 men after the fight on July 2. The confederates had lost in this battle loosing 28,000 men. -
Vicksburg
May 18th 1683-July 4th 1863.Union forces waged a campaign to take the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. capture of Vicksburg divided the Confederacy and proved the military genius of Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Confederate batteries failed, as did an attempt to take the city by land from the north by General William Tecumseh Sherman. Grant arrived in the rear of Vicksburg, within which Pemberton's 30,000 troops were isolated. Pemberton surrendered the city on July 4. -
Chickamauga
september 19 1863-september 20 1863.Union General William Rosecrans gathered his army of some 60,000 at Chickamauga, Georgia, located 12 miles southwest of Chattanooga. Longstreet's troops arrived. With some 65,000 men at his disposal. September 19, the two armies met in the woods lining the banks of Chickamauga Creek. Ten Confederate generals had been killed or wounded. Confederate casualties numbered close to 20,000. The Union suffered some 16,000 casualties. In November, victory over the Conf -
wilderness
may 5 1864- may 7 1864. Ulysses S. Grant as commander in chief of all Union armies. Confederate corps led by Richard Ewell clashed with the Union's 5th Corps near the Orange Turnpike. Union 2nd Corps, led by Winfield Scott Hancock, attacked along the Plank Road. Union Army suffered more than 17,500 casualties, 7,000 more than the toll suffered by the Confederates. Lee's Confederates managed to get there first, stalling the advance again in a series of confrontation. -
Spotsylvania
may 8 1864-may 21 1864. Union General William T. Sherman led his own advance into Georgia. It was bloodiest fighting of the Civil War, with some 18,000 Union and 11,000 Confederate casualties. At dawn on May 12, Hancock's Union corps attacked the Confederate mule. Lee ordered his battered troops to fall back. Lee was forced yet again to maneuver his army in between the enemy and the Confederate capital. -
Shermans march
november 22 1864-december 21 1864. Sherman’s troops captured Atlanta on September 2, 1864. Confederate army headed west into Tennessee and Alabama, attacking Union supply lines as they went. General George Thomas took some 60,000 men to meet the Confederates in Nashville, while Sherman took the remaining 62,000 on an offensive march through Georgia. Sherman’s “total war” in Georgia was brutal and destructive, but it did just what it was supposed to do: it hurt Southern morale. -
petersburgh
june 9 1864-march 25 1865. June 9, 1864 the Union army began a siege of the two cities, with both sides rapidly constructing fortifications 35 miles long. Union losses were heavy, but, by the end of August. Grant had crossed the Petersburg–Weldon Railroad; he captured Fort Harrison on September 29. Southern railroads had broken down or been destroyed. March 25, 1865 the Confederates were driven back at the Battle of Fort Stedman. Johnston surrendered to General Grant on April 9. -
lincolns assassination
April 14 1865-april 15 1865. John Wilkes Booth, was a Maryland native born in 1838 who remained in the North during the Civil War despite his Confederate sympathies. Lincoln occupied a private box above the stage with his wife Mary, a young army officer named Henry Rathbone. Booth slipped into the box and fired his .44-caliber single-shot derringer into the back of Lincoln's head. Andrew Johnson was sworn in as President following Lincoln's death. Johnson became one of the least popular presiden
