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Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an anti-slavery novel that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was published on March 20, 1852. Many people were inspired by her book and chose Lincoln for president due to the fact he wanted slavery gone as well. Lincoln was elected and claimed he wanted to end slavery in 1863. This highly affected the civil war since Stowe was mainly responsible for Abraham Lincoln’s presidency.
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Fort Sumter is an island fortification found in Charleston Harbor. It is especially known for being the first ever site of the first shots during the Civil War from April 12, 1861, to 1865. Fort Sumter was built to protect Charleston Harbor during the war.
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The First Battle of Bull run was the first largest and most major land war during the Civil War on July 21, 1861. The results of the war was a Confederate victory and shocked many people of the North since the war wasn’t as easy of a victory.
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The battle of Fort Donelson was the first major Union victory in the Civil War on February 12, 1862. Not only was it a strong victory for the union, but also for Ulysses S. Grant. The confederates suffered major losses of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson.
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This was history’s first ever naval battle between warships. Ironclad ship destroyed a two wooden-hulled U.S. warships taken place at Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862. Their advantages were that they had forts stronger than the ships and the ability to own heavy or large powerful guns.
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The First battle of Kernstown was an initial engagement for the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862 for the Union. The battle was a Union victory, granting them these transferred forces to reinforce the Peninsula Campaign against the Confederate capital, Richmond in March 23rd, 1862.
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The Shiloh was a battle with a crucial victory for the Union during the Civil War back on April 6, 1862. The Union made good progress with the victory of the Battle of Shiloh since it had given the Union army better control of the Mississippi River valley.
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Antietam had enabled the Union to repel the first Confederate invasion of the North in September 17, 1862. The battle was lead by Abraham Lincoln who issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.
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The Battle of Cornith defeated the confederates and the Union lead to a victory. After that loss for the confederates on October 3, 1862, the Union focused on capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi, which was the last major rebel stronghold on the Mississippi River.
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The Union victory helped Kentucky ensure that it would stay in the northern hands for the rest of the war on October 8th, 1862, meanwhile the Confederates were forced to abandon their 1862 Heartland Campaign which was a strategic defeat.
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The Battle of Fredericksburg was a huge defeat for the Union Army on December 11, 1862. The union was a larger group and had outnumbered the Confederates (120,000 Union men to 85,000 Confederate men), yet it was still one of the greatest Confederate victories.
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Chancellorsville is known as General Robert Lee’s “perfect battle” due to his risky choice to split up the army into 2 groups to fight a much larger and stronger one. This decision has lead to a confederate victory on May 6, 1863.
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The Champion Hill battle was a Union victory, but this victory cost 410 killed, 1844 wounded, and 187 missing out of 30,000 men on May 16, 1863. For the Southerners, the battle was a disastrous mess. The battle did foreshadow the ultimate success of Grant's campaign.
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A great victory for the Union was The Siege of Vicksburg. The victory of the battle enabled them to have full control of the Mississippi River on May 18, 1863. The victories of Gettysburg and Vicksburg lead to a major turning point towards the Union during the civil war.
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The battle of Gettysburg had to be one of the largest number of casualties of the entire war which made it often stated as the war’s turning point. Lee’s bold plan was to invade the north, yet his plan had failed due to their loss of victory on July 1, 1863.
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On September 18th, 1863, The Battle of Chickamauga was one of the largest confederate victories out in the Western theater. After all the Confederate's losses, including the big ones like Gettysburg and Vicksburg, were easily quick to turn around with the given time they received.
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Starting on June 9th, 1864, The siege of the battle of Petersburg had foreshadowed the wrench warfare earning it a prominent position in military history. It was also featured as one of the war’s largest concentration of African Troops who suffered many heavy casualties.
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On June 27, 1864, The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was an important battle due to the Atlanta campaign. The Atlanta campaign was by Union General, William Sherman, and was made to launch a full-scale frontal assault on the entrenched position of General Joseph Johnston's Rebels.
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The site, the Appotomax Court House, was noticed for its association with the Civil War and the battles fought at the time. They discussed the final battle, and then Confederate General Robert E. Lee's had decided to surrender the Union from the war on April 9, 1865.
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Abraham Lincoln, America’s Civil War leader, was assassinated 5 days after Confederate Robert Lee surrendered his army from the war that has lasted 4 years between the states on March 29th, 1865.
