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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was published and the novel served as one of the triggers that led up to Civil War. The novel sold 300,000 duplicates inside three months and was broadly read. In whole, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin extended a division between the North and the South. One of the most powerful novels composed by an American, it was one of the contributing causes of the Civil War.
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Shortly after Lincoln’s announcement of intenting to resupply the fort, Confederate General Beauregard attacked the Fort Sumter. The battle lasted approximately one and a half day. On April 13, 1861, Major Robert Anderson and the remaining soldiers of his Union Forces had no choice, but to surrender the fort. This bombardment served as one of the very first battles during the Civil War.
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The First Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of the American Civil War. Union and Accomplice armed forces fought in Manassas Intersection, Virginia. The engagement started when around 35,000 Union troops walked from the government capital in Washington, D.C. to strike a Accomplice constrain of 20,000 along Bull Run. The Union powers killed many Confederates, however, the involvement of the Accomplice officers showed the distinction as the Confederates won the fight.
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On November 8, 1861, Charles Wilkes, a U.S. Navy Officer, imprisoned a couple of Confederate envoys aboard the British mail ship, the Trent. The Great Britain accused the United States of overstepping British neutrality, and the incident created a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Great Britain during the Civil War.
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One of the most popular maritime battles in American history happened as two ironclads, the U.S.S.Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia battled to a draw off Hampton Streets, Virginia. The ships fired on each other for 4 hours. Within the early evening, the Virginia pulled back to Norfolk. Not one or the other transport was genuinely harmed, but the Monitor successfully finished the brief rule of fear that the Confederate ironclad had brought to the Union navy.
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The Peninsula Campaign was a major Union attack against the Confederate capital of Richmond led by Major General George B. McClellan in the spring and summer of 1862. The first stage of the campaign ended in the indefinite Battle of Seven Pines, during which General Johnston was injured and command passed to R. E. Lee. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia held off the Army of the Potomac in a series of battles known as the Seven Days’ Battles, finally ending McClellan’s campaign toward Richmond.
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Shiloh occured in southwestern Tennessee and was one of the major early engagements of the American Civil War. The battle began when the Confederate Army launched an unexpected attack on Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant. The Confederates were not able to hold their positions and were forced back, which brough Union a victory. Both sides lost more than 23,000 people.
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The Battle of Antietam occurred at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. It was one of the deadliest battles that happened during the Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was against Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac. Confederate General Robert E. Lee had once again tried to invade the North. Military historians consider the Battle of Antietam a stalemate. Still, the Union claimed victory. This battle was crucial to the Civil War.
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The Battle of Fredericksburg was a major Civil War battle that took place around the city of Fredericksburg in northern Virginia. It was one of the most decisive victories for the South during the war. The battle took place over the course of several days.The Union Army of the Potomac was commanded by General Ambrose Burnside. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was led by General Robert E. Lee, whose Army claimed victory at the end of the Battle.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Although it did not end completely slavery in the nation, millions of people praised Lincoln for this. Moreover, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators.
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On April 30, 1863, Major General Hooker launched a turning movement designed to pry Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia out of its lines at Fredericksburg. The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and an important engagement of the Chancellorsville campaign. It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville. It was one of Robert E. Lee's greatest victories.
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The Siege of Vicksburg was a decisive Union victory during the American Civil War that divided the confederacy and proclaimed Union General Ulysses S. Grant as one of the best generals. Union forces waged a campaign to take the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The 47-day attack gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union and was part of the Union’s Anaconda Plan to cut off outside trade to the Confederacy.
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The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was the biggest battle of the American Civil War. In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee prepared his second invasion of the Northern states. Lee's attempt to invade the North had failed and had resulted in an estimated 51,000 casualties on both sides, the bloodiest single battle of the entire war. The Battle of Gettysburg was a significant Union victory and is considered to be the turning point of the Civil War.
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The New York Draft Riots happened in July 1863, when the annoyance of average New Yorkers over another government draft law during the Civil War started five days of probably the bloodiest and most damaging revolting in U.S. history. Many individuals were executed, a lot more genuinely harmed, and African Americans were frequently the objective of the rioters' brutality.
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The Battle of the Wilderness was one of the first steps of a major Union offensive toward the capital of Richmond, ordered by Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the spring of 1864. As the Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan River on May 4, General Robert E. Lee decided that his Army would confront the enemy in the dense Virginia woods known as the Wilderness. Instead, Grant ordered his battered troops to continued southward in what would be a long, but successful campaign.
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The Battle of Spotsylvania was part of a campaign by the Union to push back the Confederate Army deep into Virginia. The campaign led to the Siege of Petersburg and the end of the Civil War. The battle took place over a number of days from May 8 to May 19, 1864. The Union Army of the Potomac consisted of 100,000 soldiers led by generals Ulysses S. Grant and George Meade. The Confederate Army of Virginia was nearly half the size with only 52,000 soldiers. They were led by General Robert Lee.
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The Battle of Cold Harbor occured on May 31 to June 12, 1864, just outside of the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia. Cold Harbor was the final battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign. The main part of the Battle of Cold Harbor was a frontal assault on Confederate lines that ended in nearly 7,000 Union losses after less than an hour. It was one of the most brutal battles of the war. The result was Lee's last major victory of the war.
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The Battle of Petersburg was a series of battles around the cities of Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, fought from June 15, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Beginning after the unsuccessful attack of Petersburg by Ulysses S. Grant, Grant then constructed trenches around the eastern portion of Richmond to the outskirts of Petersburg. The city was a major supply hub to the confederate army led by Robert E. Lee, who finally abandoned the city in 1865 and retreated.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House was fought near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, and led to Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Days earlier, Lee had abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond and the city of Petersburg. The resulting Battle of Appomattox Court House, which lasted only a few hours, effectively brought the four-year Civil War to an end.
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On April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. Booth escaped through the back door. The assassination occurred only days after the surrender at Appomattox Court House, which had signaled the effective end of the American Civil War. Lincoln’s death put lots of people into despair, and the search for Booth and his accomplices was the largest manhunt in American history to that date.
