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January 1863 Emancipation Proclamation is issued
Another act stated that all slaves of men who supported the Confederacy were to be considered free. Lincoln, public's growing support of abolition, issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring that all slaves in areas still in rebellion were federal government, free. -
March 1863 -- The First Conscription Act.
An act was passed making all men between the ages of 20 and 45 liable to be called for military service. The act seemed unfair which started a protest from new York. In the south they provoked a similar act. -
July 4, 1863 – The siege of Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant made severally plans to take Vicksburg. But, it was failure in first events. In 1863 he plan to cross his troops west of Mississippi river to south of Vicksburg. -
54th Massachusetts Regiment
A wealthy son of a well knows abolitionist was the commander of the first black regiment recruited in the north. The first conflict was on July 16. This event happens on James island. -
July 1863 – the Battle of Gettysburg
This battle was fought July 1-3 1863. This place was a remembrance because people stood on this land and fought for what they believed in. these where very important people. -
Resistance by Slaves
Slaves were not satisfied with the way they were treated. They had many different ways of showing this. This is where this comes in at. -
November 19, 1863 – The Gettysburg Address
One thing I remember about this is that it was written to honor and thank the people who fought for us and sacrificed their life for us. Without these people it would have been so many things that we wouldn’t have accomplished. -
July 1864 -- Confederate Troops Approach Washington, D.C.
General Jubal Early led his forces to Maryland. He relieves the pressure on Lee's army. Early got within five miles of Washington, but on July 13, he was driven back to Virginia. -
March 1964 – General Grant commander of all the Union Armies
Under Grant, the union army defeated the confederate military and effectively ended the war with the surrender of the Confederate army of northern Virginia at Appomattox. -
Civil War Prison Camps
Work camps for forced labor were guarded and movement of inmates restricted. Prisoners from concentration camps and workers conscripted in occupied Poland, and Ukraine were compelled to work, on starvation.
