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Confederate troops started shelling Fort Sumpter. After a 34 hour barage, the union surrendered and only two lives were lost.
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Tennessee left the union to fight in the Civil War for the confederacy. When Tennessee left the union, the confederacy was formed completely.
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McDowel and his men suffer a huge defeat only 25 miles from Washington. The union soldiers ran after a charge by the confederacy. This motivated the south because the north was so easy to beat.
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Union soldiers occupied Hatteras Island in North Carolina. They took island and held it for the whole war.
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Jeffreson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederate States of America for a six year term.
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The unin army sent ships down the Tennessee River to attack and capture Fort Henry. The union army followed up with the attack and took the fort.
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This was the first battle of two iron clad ships, the C.S.S Virginia and the U.S.S Monitor. The two ships went at it off the coast of a town called Hampton Roads. The battle was a draw because neither side could penetrate the armor of the other ship with cannonballs.
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This battle ended up like the last battle of bull run, the confederate won. Even though the union outnumbered the confederacy by a little more than 10,000 men, they still lost a bad defeat. McClellan was too too cautious and didn't want to loose many men. He retreated because the south scared them off.
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Abraham Lincoln gives a speech that frees the slaves in all non-union controlled states/cities. This confused many northerners because they thought lincoln was going to free all slaves. He did this so that the boarder states wouldn't leave the union and fight for the south.
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Black soldiers were recruited into the war and proved to be effective soldiers.
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Joseph Hooker is put in charge of the whole union army after Gen. Burnside got fired.
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The union army was getting weaker because they didn't have enought troops. The draft made young men join the army without choice or pay $300 and not do any service.
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Stonewall Jackson was a very great member of the confederate forces. He and his men fought off a union attack single handedly. When he died from gun shot wounds, the whole south mourned his death.
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IGen. Robert E. Lee marched his men to find shoes in Gettysburg, PA. They didn't expect there to be any conflict. The two armies found eachother and took their ridges. The north had a better ridge(it was elevated from the ground and all the union had to do was siat and pick off the mile wide charge. The union won the battle and it was a huge tide turner for the whole war.
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The union needed to take the Mississippi River to take the rest of the south, and the last fort that needed to be taken was Ft. Vicksburg. The union navy bombarded it for six weeks and they eventually surrendered. This cut off the south from it's allies in the west.
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Grant and his army needed to attack Cold Harbor, and he did. He sent his men to attack the fort, and he lost a little over 7000 men. He couldn't make a final attack, so he had to retreat.
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General Grant misses his oppertunity to wipe out some of the Confederate army and get rid of some railroads.
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McClellan Runs for President Agunst Lincoln because Lincoln fired him twice from his job(McClellan thougth he was amazing) as the general of the war.
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Sherman and his men take the city of Atlanta. This was a huge push for the war for the union because Atlanta was a big southern city.
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Sherman and his 62,000 men walked to the sea from Atlanta, Georgia. He destroyed confederate forces defending their home, and he pilaged towns and destroyed things. This hurt southern morale.
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A peace conference occurs as President Lincoln meets with Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens at Hampton Roads in Virginia, but the meeting ends in failure and the war continues.
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The last offensive for Lee's Army of Northern Virginia begins with an attack on the center of Grant's forces at Petersburg. Four hours later the attack is broken.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Grant allows Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permits soldiers to keep horses and mules.
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President Lincoln gets shot in the back of the head by John Wilks Booth. The whole country mournes his death.
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The 13th amendment is passed and all slaves are freed in the united states. The country is whole and equal again... or is it!
