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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
On the Confederate side, accusations flew between Johnston, Beauregard and President Jefferson Davis over who was blamed for the failure to pursue and crush the enemy’s after the battle. For the Union, Lincoln removed McDowell from command and replaced him with George B. McClellan, who would retrain and reorganize Union troops defending Washington. The start of the battle was and the end date was July 22. -
Hampton Roads
Battle between the Monitor and Merrimack, first duel between ironclad warships it began a new era in naval warfare. Though the battle itself wasincolusive. -
Shiloh
Confederates attacked Ulysses S. Grant’s forces but were unable to hold their position and were sent ack. The battle was fought in the woods with in experienced troops on both sides . Both sides claimed victory but it was a confederate failure. -
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Civil War
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Siege of Vicksburg
Vicksburg surrendered with victory at the Battle of Gettysburg on the previous day July 3, greatly hearted the North and marked the turning point of the war. The start date was the spring of 1862 to July 1863. The capture of Vicksburg yielded the North control of the entire course of the river, and this enabled it to isolate the Confederate states that lay west of the river to those in the east. -
Antietam
Generals Robert E. Lee snd George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northen soil. Lee withdrew across the river on September 18, suffering 10,318 casualties to McClellan's 12,401. -
Fredericksburg
On December 13, Burnside ordered his left wing (led by General William B. Franklin) in an attack on Lee's right, commanded by Jackson, while the rest of his army attempted to assault Longstreet's First Corps at Marye's Heights. Though a division led by General George Meade managed to temporarily break Jackson's line, Franklin failed to send 50,000 more troops forward when given the opportunity, and Jackson was able to launch a successful counterattack. The Battle of Fredericksburg was a crushing -
Chancellorsville
Facing an enemy force nearly twice the size of his own, Lee daringly split his troops in two, confonting and surprising Union Gen. Lee now possessed the strategic initative, which in a few weeks would lead him north to Gettysburg. -
Gettysburg
Brimming with confidence, Lee decided to go on the offensive and invade the North for a second time (the first invasion had ended at Antietam the previous fall). Though the cautious Meade would be criticized for not pursuing the enemy after Gettysburg, the battle was a crushing defeat for the Confederacy. -
Chickamauga
Braxton Bragg had 65,000 men with him. The rebels were able to burst through a gap in the federal lines and send the Union troops into chaotic retreat. In October General Ulysses. S Grant arrived with reinforcements and took over the Union command in the religion -
Wilderness
The battle started May 5, and the battle ended on May 7.The fighting was fierce and chaotic. It was very difficult to move in an orderly fashion and negated the effect of both the cavalry and the artillery. Men on both sides stumbled into the enemy’s camps and they were prisoners. Fires ignited by rifle bursts and exploding shells trapped and killed many of the wounded. 17,500 Union army men suffered over two days, and 7,000 more than the toll suffered by the Confederates. -
Spotsylvania
on May 8, 1864 After two days of bloody but indecisive fighting, Grant ordered the Army of the Potomac (led by General George Meade) to march south via a flanking motion in an attempt to get between Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Richmond. On May 19, 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. -
Petersburg
In several battles in the 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. Hunger, exposure, and the apparent hopelessness of further resistance led to increasing desertion due to southern railroads being destroyed. 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 to the Sea
Atlanta was a railroad hub and the industrial center of the Confederacy: food,weapons and others goods. In April, the Confederacy surrendered and the war was over. -
Lincoln’s Assassination
1865 At 10:15, Booth slipped into the box and fired his .44-caliber single-shot derringer into the back of Lincoln's head. There were attacks in many cities against those who expressed support for Booth.
