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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 Lincoln ordered Brigadier General Irvin McDowell to mount an offensive that would hit quickly and decisively at the enemy and open the way to Richmond, Bringing the war to a mercifully quick end.
Its outcome sent northerners who had expected a quick, decisive victory and gave rejoicing southerners a false hope that they themselves could pull off a victory. -
Hampton Roads
March 8 1862 to March 9 1862
The Battle of Hampton Roads, was part of a Confederate effort to break the Union blockade of Southern ports. It began a new era in naval warfare.
The Virginia's spectacular success on March 8 had not only marked an end to the day of wooden navies but had also thrilled the South and raised the false hope that the Union blockade would be broken. -
Shiloh
April 6, 1862 to April 7, 1862
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.The Confederates were unable to hold their positions and were forced back, resulting in a Union victory. both sides claimed victory, it was a Confederate failure for both sides. -
Antietam
September 17, 1862 to September 18.
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. it remains the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 22,000 casualties.
The draw that the Union claimed as a victory provided the Lincoln administration. -
Fredericksburg
November 7 1862 to December 13 1862
President 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. McClellan. Burnside turned it down both times.
The Battle of Fredericksburg was a crushing defeat for the Union, whose soldiers fought courageously and well but fell victim to mismanagement by their generals.
On the Confederate side, the victory at Fredericksburg restored Confederate morale -
Chancellorsville
April 30 to May 6, 1863
Fought in the Wilderness region of Virginia, Chancellorsville was General Robert E. Lee's greatest defensive victory, an outstanding example of command partnership and the misuse of strategic initiative.
considered to be Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's greatest victory during the American Civil War.Hooker having lost 17,278 casualties to Lee's 12,826, which in a few weeks would lead them into Gettysburg -
Gettysburg
June 28 1863 to July 4th 1863
Union side, President Lincoln had lost confidence in the Army of the Potomac's commander, Joseph Hooker, who seemed reluctant to confront Lee's army after the defeat at Chancellorsville.
The battle was a crushing defeat for the Confederacy. Union casualties in the battle numbered 23,000, while the Confederates had lost some 28,000 men-more than a third of Lee's army. -
Vicksburg
May 2 1863 to July 4 1863
Union forces waged a campaign to take the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. 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 (July 3), greatly heartened the North and in fact marked the turning point of the war. -
Chickamauga
September 19 1863 to September 20 1863
Union and Confederate forces were struggling over control of the key railroad center of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Confederate casualties close to 20,000. The Union suffered some 16,000 casualties, making the Battle of Chickamauga the costliest one in the war's western theater.
Thomas helped Grant's forces reverse the results of Chickamauga with a decisive victory over the Confederates in the Battle of Chattanooga. -
Wilderness
May 4 1864 to May 8
Grant began planning a major offensive toward the Confederate capital of Richmond. The Union Army suffered more than 17,500 casualties over two days of fighting. Grant refused to order a retreat, promised Lincoln that regardless of the outcome, he would not halt his army's advance. Federals marched towards the town of Spotsylvania to stall the series of confrontations. -
Spotsylvania
May 8 1864 to May 21 1864
Grant marched to their destination, it was a small town of Spotsylvania Court House, a crossroads on the road to Richmond. Rushing to build a network of defensive trenches and artillery emplacements at Spotsylvania, the rebels stalled the Union.
the Confederates turned the tables with a flank attack on the Union right at Harris Farm; it was repulsed with heavy losses on both sides. As it became clear to Grant that his troops could not gain an advantage. -
Sherman's March
September 2, 1864 to December 21, 1864
Center of the Confederacy, It had munitions factories, foundries 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 Confederacy surrendered and the war was over. -
Petersburg
June 9, 1864 to April 9 1865
The Petersburg Campaign was a series of military operations in southern Virginia during the final months of the American Civil War that in the defeat of the South.Union losses were heavy, but, General Ulysses S. Grant had crossed the Petersburg–Weldon Railroad; he captured Fort Harrison By however, General Robert E. Lee still held Richmond and Petersburg. After Lee's plan to join with General Joseph E. Johnston was thwarted, he surrendered to General Grant on April 9 -
Lincolns Assassination
March 20, 1865 to April 19, 1865
Two weeks later, Richmond fell to Union forces. In April, with Confederate armies near collapse across the South, Booth came up with a desperate plan to save the Confederacy.
paralyzed and struggling to breathe Dr. Leale said that Lincoln could not be saved and would die during the night.
Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. His assassination had a long-lasting impact upon the United States, and he was mourned around the country.
