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Civil War
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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
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Hampton Roads
The March 9, 1862, battle between the Monitor and Merrimack during the American Civil War (1861-65) was history's first duel between ironclad warships,known as the Battle of Hampton Roads. On May 9, 1862, following the Confederate evacuation of Norfolk, the Virginia was destroyed by its crew. The Monitor with 16 crewmen was lost during a gale off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on December 31, 1862. -
Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh (Battle of Pittsburg Landing) was the second great engagement of the American Civil War. Confederate generals launched a surprise attack on Ulysses S. Grant's forces in southwestern Tennessee. After initial successes, the Confederates were unable to hold their positions and were forced back, resulting in a Union victory. Both sides suffered heavy losses -
Vicksburg
From the spring of 1862 until July 1863, Union forces waged a campaign to take the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi, which lay on the east bank of the Mississippi River, halfway between Memphis to the north and New Orleans to the south. After the spring of 1862, when the Confederates lost Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, and Memphis in Tennessee and New Orleans in Louisiana, Vicksburg became the key remaining point of their defense of the Mississippi River. -
Gettysburg
Robert Lee's Confederate army of Northern Virginia made a vicroty over the arey of the Potomac at Chancellorsville. Lee decided to invade north a 2nd time. When Lee found out the army of the Potomac was on its way, Lee assembled his army in the crossroads of town in Gettysburgh. The battler was a defeat for the confederacy. More than a 3rd of Lees army was lost. North rejoiced while South Mourned. -
Antietam
On September 17, 1862, Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northern soil. After a string of Union defeats, this tactical victory provided Abraham Lincoln the political cover he needed to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. Lee withdrew across the river on September 18, suffering 10,318 casualties. -
Fredericksburg
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Chancellorsville
Early on May 2, Jackson and 30,000 men followed a circuitous route that brought them against Hooker's weak right flank. Jackson's attack, begun in late afternoon, was a brilliant tactical success that destroyed half of Hooker's line. The most intense combat of the battle took place on May 3, Lee now possessed the strategic initiative, which in a few weeks would lead him north to Gettysburg. -
Chickamauga
In the western theater of the Civil War, during the late summer and autumn of 1863, By mid-September, Union General William Rosecrans had pushed Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee out of Chattanooga and gathered his army of some 60,000 at Chickamauga, Georgia. With some 65,000 men at his disposal. On the early morning of September 19, the two armies met in the woods lining the banks of Chickamauga Creek. Grant had the victory of the Battle of Chickamauga. -
Wilderness
n February 1864, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Ulysses S. Grant as commander in chief of all Union armies in the Civil War. Wasting no time, Grant began planning a major offensive toward the Confederate capital of Richmond, to be known as the Overland Campaign.The Battle of the Wilderness began in earnest on the morning of May 5. By the morning of May 7, the two armies were essentially where they had been at the start of the battle, 48 hours earlier. -
Spotsylvania
On ay 4, Lee moved his army into position to confront the enemy in the dense woodland known as the Wilderness, where the first engagement of the Union campaign occurred on May 5-7.For the next 12 days, Spotsylvania Court House saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the Civil War. -
Petersburg
On June 9, 1864 the Union army began a siege of the two cities. On March 25, 1865, The Confederates were driven back at the Battle of Fort Stedman, leaving Lee with 50,000 troops as opposed to Grant's 120,000. After Lee's plan to join with General Joseph E. Johnston was thwarted, he surrendered to General Grant on April 9 at Appomattox Court House. -
Sherman's March
General Sherman’s troops captured Atlanta on September 2, 1864. After they lost Atlanta, the Confederate army headed west into Tennessee and Alabama, attacking Union supply lines as they went. They wrecked bridges, chopped down trees and burned barns filled with provisions before the Union army could reach them. Sherman’s “total war” in Georgia was brutal and destructive.
