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Battle of Fort Sumter
*Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina
*beginning of Civil War
*No people died, but one Confederate horse died -
The First Battle of Bull Run
*Battle that ended the Unions chance to put a quick end to the war
*General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson becomes a hero for his war tactics of attacking from behind hidden slopes
*3,000 Union soldiers died
*2,000 Confederate soldiers died
Fought in Manassas, VA
*People came to watch the battle because they thought it would of been a non-bloody war -
Battle of Shiloh
*Conferderates caught General Grant by surprise and pushed the Union Army back
*General Grant counterattacks and forces the Confederates to retreat
*Over 23,000 soldiers died
*General Grant established the first win for the Union -
Capture of New Orleans
*Union naval officer David Farragut captured New Orleans
*Big loss for the South's economy and trade system
*Traveled up the Mississippi River capturing small port cities along the way
*Became a "highway" for the Union soldiers -
Seven Days' Battles
*Confederates suffered calsualties, still forced Union to surrender
*General Lee and the Confederates defeat McClellan and the Union army
*also known as the "battle of the Peninsula"
*Confederates go straight on the attack
*Confederates kept Union from taking Richmond, VA -
Second Battle of Bull Run
*Confederate victory under "Stonewall" and General Lee
*Union tried to capture Richmond, VA
*14,000 Union soldiers died
*8,000 Confederate soldiers died
*Made a diversion for the Southern slaves to escape -
Battle at Antietam
*bloodiest war in U.S. history
*Union won the war
*General Lee lost nearly a third of his troops
*Maryland battle
*Neither side surrendered, but Confederates retreated, which technically gave the Union the victory
*Over 23,000 deaths -
Emancipation Proclamation
*Abraham Lincoln allowed a near 180,000 slaves to fight in the Union army
*the slaves were not set free until January 1, 1862 -
Writ of Habeas Corpus Suspension & the Draft
*Habeas Corpus: latin for you shall have the body
-the protection against unlawful imprisonment
-Lincoln first suspended it when a Congressman from Maryland tried to stop Union forces
-The Confederacy draft had been established in 1862
-All 18 year old men must still register for the draft today -
Battle of Gettysburg
*50,000 deaths
*3 day battle
*bloodiest battle of the civil war
*Union victory
*biggest victory for the Union
*Lincoln considers the war won with the victory in this battle and issues the Gettysburg Address -
Capture of Vicksburg
*General Grant captures Vicksburg Mississippi
*Completely damages the economy and trade system
*Gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi River
*Big gain for the Union -
Gettysburg Address
*Speech made by Abraham Lincoln in which he predicted that the union would win the war -
Sherman's March
*Maj. General William Tecumseh Sherman
*Atlanta Campaign: after winning the battle of Atlanta, Sherman order the evacuation of the city and burned most of the buildings in the city, military or not
*After taking the city, Sherman headed south toward Savannah=Sherman's March
*Victory at Atlanta helped get Lincoln re-elected
*Marched from Atlanta to the sea from November-December 1864
*Sherman's march ended with the capture of the port city of Savannah on December 21 -
Lee Surrenders/Appomattox Courthouse
*General Lee knows he won't win so he surrenders
*Confederates lose war
*Union wins war
*Lee signs surrend document at the Appomattox Courthouse
*offical end of Civil War
*Confederates were cut off from their supplies and were trapped
*The Ushers in Reconstruction was the time period of rebuilding
