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Robert E. Lee surrenders
At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surviving Confederate force in North Carolina, and harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option. -
First Manasses
The First Battle of Bull Run was a major wake up call to the north. This indicated that it would be a long and bloody war. -
Ulysses S. Grant takes over the Union Army
Grant was the one who led this during the American War. -
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Savannah falls to the Union
In January 1861, huge crowds in Savannah, Ga., greeted news of the state's secession from the Union with wild enthusiasm, and with apparent near-unanimity. Merchants, bankers, planters, politicians, religious leaders, and longshoremen-Democrats all — declared their determination to oppose the newly elected president, Abraham Lincoln, derisively termed a "Black Republican." -
Battle at Fort Sumter
At four thirty in the morning 50 cannons went off in Fort Sumter. This is when the Civil War began. There were no deaths taken place. -
Lincoln orders blockade of the South
An act of war against his own country, the act had significant Constitutional, Military and National implications -
Monitor vs. Virginia naval battle
At night on March 8th, 1862, Virginia prepared to renewed combat. -
Battle of Shiloh
was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6 – 7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union army under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had moved via the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and was encamped principally at Pittsburg Landing on the west bank of the river. Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack on Grant there. The Confederates achieved considerable success on the first day, but were -
Battle at Chattanooga
here were three Battles of Chattanooga fought in Chattanooga, Tennessee, during the American Civil War:
First Battle of Chattanooga, (June 7–8, 1862) minor artillery bombardment by Union Brigadier General James S. Negley against Confederate Maj. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith -
7 Days Campaign
The 7 days battle was 6 battles that took places over 7 days. It took places from June 25th to July 1st. It took places in Richmond Virginia. Confederate General Robert E. Lee drove the incading Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. General George B. McClellan, away from Richmond and into a retreat down the Virginia Peninsula. -
Second battle of Bull Run
This lasted from the 28-30.It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) fought in 1861 on the same ground. -
Antietam
Antietam was fought on Wednesday, September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with 22,717 dead, wounded and missing on both sides combined.[4] -
Emancipation Proclamation issued
The Emancipation Proclimation was an order issued to all segments of the executive branch of the United States by Lincoln on in 1863 -
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 Gettysburg
This battle was from July 1-3 and happened in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. This was a big turning point in the war because at the beggining the South was actually winning. -
Siege of Vicksburg
was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.[1] It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. -
Sherman captures Atlanta
The battle of Atlanta was a battle for the Atlanta campaign. It was during the American Civil war and was taken place on July 22, 1864 and was just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. -
Lincoln gets re-elected
Became president winning against George McClellan. -
Abraham 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. -
Sherman begins march to the sea
is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted through Georgia from November 15 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. Sherman's forces destroyed military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property. -
Union Army moves in and occupies Richmond, VA
Richmond was the capital of Confederate states. -
Abe Lincoln shot and killed
They had cerimony and held stars and stripes over Fort Sumter. -
13th amendment passed
On this day 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 whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist 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. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
t 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 Northern Virginia. Chancellorsville is known as Lee's "perfect battle" because his risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much
