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The Cival War
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Fort Sumpter
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. -
The First Battle of Bull Run
Over two hours, 10,000 Federals gradually pushed back 4,500 rebels across the Warrington turnpike and up Henry House Hill. Confederate troops were far too disorganized to press their advantage and pursue the retreating Yankees, who reached Washington by July 22. -
Hampton Roads
The MArch9, 1862, battle between the Monitor and Merrimack (CCS Virginia) during the American Civil War (1861-65) was history's first duel between ironclad warships. The engagement, known as The Battle of Hapmton Roads, was part of a Confederate effort to break the Union blokade of Southern ports--including Norfolk and Richmond Virginia--that had been imposed at the start of the war. Though the battle itself was inconclusive, it began a new era in naval warfare. -
The Battle of Shiloh
Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, the Battle of Shiloh 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, with more than 23,000 total casualties. -
The siege of Vicksburg
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. The capture of Vicksburg divided the Confederacy and proved the military genius of Union General Ulysses S. Grant. The surrender of Vicksburg, with the victory at the Battle of Gettysburg the previous day, greatly heartened the North and in fact marked the turning point of the war. -
Battle of Antietam
On September 17, 1862 General Robert E. Lee and George Clellan faced off near Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Though the result of the battle was inconclusive, it remains the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 22,000 casualties. -
The Battle of Frederiscksburg
Bfore the fall of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln had twice offered Ambrose Burnside overall command of the Union's Army of the Potomac due to frustration with its present commander, George B. McCallen. Burnside turned it down both times--oce after the failed Peninsula Campaign and again after the Confererate victory in the Second Battle of Bull Run( Manassas)-- insisting the McCellan was the man for the job, In September 1862, Burnside led the left wing of the Army of the Potomac. -
Gettysburg
In May 1863, Robet E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia had scored a smashing victory over the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville. Brimming with confidence, Lee decided to go on the offence and invade the North for a second time(the first tnvasion had ended at Antietam the previous fall). -
Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville, fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, is widely considered to be the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's greatest victory during the American Civil War. Facing an enemy force nearly twice the size of his own, Lee daringly split his troops in two, confronting and surprising Union Gen.Joseph Hooker. ThoughHooker still heldnumerical superioriy, he did not press this advantage, instead falling back to defensive positions. When Lee once again split his forces and attack -
The Battle of Chickamauga
On the early morning of September 19, the two armies met in the woods lining the banks of Chickamauga Creek. Though Longstreet and his fellow general Nathan Bedford Forrest wanted to pursue the enemy the following morning, Bragg was preoccupied with the toll taken on his army by the battle at Chickamauga. Ten Confederate generals had been killed or wounded, including the fiery Texan John Bell Hood (whose leg was amputated), and overall Confederate casualties numbered close to 20,000. -
Spotsylvania
Appointed general in chief of all union armies in Febuary 1864,Ulysses S. Grant wasted no time in planning a major offence on the confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. Grant's primary goal in threatning the capitail was to keep Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia occupied while Union General William T. Sherman led his own advane into Georgia in the wars western theater. -
The Battle of Wilderness
In 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. Halted by darkness, the first day of battle was inconclusive, with both armies remaining more or less where they had begun that morning. For their part, the Federals had been able to hold their positions and gain a position from wh -
Sherman's March to the Sea
General Sherman' troops captured Atlanta on September 2 1864. This was importent triumph, because Atlanta was a railroad hub and the industrial center of the confedracy: It had munitions factories, fandries and warehouses that kept the Confederate army supplied with food, weapons and other goods. It stood between the Union army and two of its most prized targets. The gulf of Mexico to the west and Charleston to the east. -
The Siege of Petersburg
In a series of battles that summer, Union losses were heavy, but, by the end of August, General Ulysses S. Grant had crossed the Petersburg–Weldon Railroad; he captured Fort Harrison on September 29. By year's end, however, General Robert E. Lee still held Richmond and Petersburg. -
Linconls Assassination
Abraham Lincoln's killer, John Wilkes booth, was a Maryland native born in 1838 wh remained in the North during the civil war despite his confederate sympathies, as conflict entered its final stages, he and several associates hatched a plot to kidnap the president and take him ti Richmond, the confederate capitial.
