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Lincoln elected president.
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois. -
South Blockade
The united states had stood firmly against the right of bellegirit parties to impose a blockade of neuteral shipping the issue had played a part the issue had played a part in the outbreak of the war in 1812. Now it was the united states that wanted to impose a blockade. President Lincoln very quickly declared a blockade against the main confederate ports. -
battle of fort sumter.
On April 10th Brig. Gen. Beauregard in command of the provisional confederate forces of charlston south carolina. demanded the surrender of the of the union garrison of fort sumter in charlston Harbor. Garrison commander Anderson refused. On April 12th Confederate batteries oppened fire at the fort. -
First battle of bull run.
Just months after the war at fort sumter, the nothern public clamored for a march against the confederate capital of Richmond Virginia which they expected to bring an early end to the Rebellian yeilding to political pressure. Brig Gen Irvin Mcdowell led his unseasoned Union army across Bull Run. Against the equally inexperienced confederate army. -
the battle of shiloh
Union General Ulysses S. Grant's forces are surprised at the town of Shiloh in Tennessee. The ensuing battle results in 13,000 Union and 10,000 Confederate casualties, more than in all previous American wars combined. -
Monitor vs. Virginia.
The story thus far: In the tradition-bound old navy of the 1850s, little interest was devoted to building ironclad ships. Learning from their experiences in the Crimean War, the European naval powers drove to update their fleets, while America’s naval leaders, many with a half century of service or more, preferred to keep building wooden ships that had masts and rigging, even when they also had steam engines. -
7 days campaign
The seven days campaign 1862 to july 1st at the culmination of the peninsula campaign which had begun in March union forces had pushed to within seven miles of the confederate capital at Richmond in this week long fluid and on going battle The confederates attacked time after time. The results was costly in confederate casualties but the union army was forced to maneuver yielding previously won territory until it was about thirty miles from the capital -
2nd battle of bull run
The second battle of Bull Run (or Manassas) was fought on Aug. 29-30, 1862. the fighting on the first day being sometimes called the battle of GROVETON. On the morning after the battle at Groveton, Pope's army was greatly reduced. It had failed to prevent the unity of Lee's army, and prudence dictated its immediate flight across Bull Run, and even to the defenses of Washington. -
Antietam
The Battle of Antietam is the bloodiest day in United States history. Over 26,000 men are killed, wounded or missing in action on both sides. Though officially a draw, the battle stops General Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland and he retreats back to Virginia. -
Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln issued a preleminary Proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state of the confederate states of america that did not return to union control by January 1 1863, None returned, and the order signed and issued. -
Emancipation proclamation takes effect
On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signs the final Emancipation Proclamation, which ends slavery in the rebelling states. A preliminary proclamation was issued in September 1862, following the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland. The act signaled an important shift in the Union's Civil War aims, expanding the goal of the war from reunification to include the eradication of slavery. -
battle of chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign.[4] It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville. Two related battles were fought nearby on May 3 in the vicinity of Fredericksburg. The campaign pitted Union Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against an army less than half its size, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of -
Siege of vicksburg
In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. With the loss of Pemberton’s army and this vital stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in half. Grant's successes in the West boosted his reputatio -
the battle of gettysburg
This war was fought July 1-3 in and around the town of Gettysburg Pennsylvania the battle with the largest number of casualties in the american civil war it is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. George Gordan Meade's army of the potomic defeated attacks by confederate Gen. Robert E Lee's army of Northern Virginia Ending Lee's invasion of the North. -
Gettysburg adress
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It -
battle of chattanooga
From the last days of September through October 1863, Gen. Braxton Bragg’s army laid siege to the Union army under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans at Chattanooga, cutting off its supplies. On October 17, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant received command of the Western armies; he moved to reinforce Chattanooga and replaced Rosecrans with Maj. Gen. George Thomas. A new supply line was soon established. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman arrived with his four divisions in mid-November, and the Federals began offe -
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battle of chattanooga
Having consolidated his position, Grant began offensive operations on November 23, by ordering Thomas to advance from the city and take a string of hills near the foot of Missionary Ridge. The next day, Hooker was ordered to take Lookout Mountain. Crossing the Tennessee River, Hooker's men found that the Confederates had failed to defend a defile between the river and mountain. Attacking through this opening, Hooker's men succeeded in pushing the Confederates off the mountain. -
Sherman captures atlanta
The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.[4] Continuing their summer campaign to seize the important rail and supply center of Atlanta, Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John B. Hood. Union Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson was killed during the battle. Despite the implication of finality in its name. -
Lincoln Re- election
In 1864, Lincoln faced many challenges to his presidency. The war was now in its fourth year, and many were questioning if the South could ever be fully conquered militarily. Union General Ulysses S. Grant mounted a massive campaign in the spring of that year to finally defeat the Confederate army of General Robert E. Lee, but after sustaining significant losses at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, the Yankees bogged down around Petersburg, Virginia. As the fall approached, Grant se -
March to sea.
is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted around Georgia from November 15, 1864 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 16 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. It inflicted significant damage, particularly to industry and infrastructure (per the doctrine of total war), and also to civ -
Savannah Georgia falls for union
Sherman's Union army has captured Savannah, Georgia. They now have created a military barrier that stretches from east to west across the South, hampering the Confederate army's attempts to move men and supplies through the region. Sherman sends word to President Lincoln that this lovely coastal city will be spared. Sherman will call Savannah his "Christmas gift" to Lincoln. Next, the Carolinas will come under attack. -
Union army occupies richmond.
The capture of Richmond had been the goal of the Union Army since the beginning of the Civil War. The Confederate capital lay tantalizingly close to Washington - only 100 miles - but it took four years of hard battle before the city fell to Union troops on April 3, 1865. Richmond in Ruins, 1865
Word reached the city on Sunday morning April 2 that the Confederate defenses had been breached and General Lee's army was heading west in retreat. -
Robert E Lee surrenders
with his army surrounded, his men weak and exhausted, Robert E. Lee realized there was little choice but to consider the surrender of his Army to General Grant. After a series of notes between the two leaders, they agreed to meet on April 9, 1865, at the house of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Courthouse. The meeting lasted approximately two and one-half hours and at its conclusion the bloodliest conflict in the nation's history neared its end. -
Lincoln Assassination
Abraham Lincoln was shot at Fort's theature by John Wilkes Booth. After the play was in Progress a figure with a drawn derringer pistol stepped into the presidential box, aimed and fired the president slumped forward -
The 13th amendment passed.
In 1865, the 13th amendment to the U.S constitution officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted. shall exsist within the united states or any place subject to their jurisdiction with these words the single greatest change wrought by the civil war. was officially noted in the constitution.
