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FT. Sumter
was the first battle of the American Civil War.Lincoln's Decision
He decided not to attack
Union Advantages. More resources.more fighting power.more factories. more food Production. Better railroad system .Strong Central Government.Confederate Advantages. King cotton. Better military leaders.Military tradition. A cause ( to defend their livelihood)
PROBLEM, States rights based government ( unwillingness to cooperate with the confederate Govt.
Union strategy for the war -
Secession of Virginia
Virginia, unwilling to fight against other Southern states, seceded—a terrible loss to the Union. Virginia was the most heavily populated state in the South and the most industrialized (with a crucial ironwork and navy yard). -
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Battle of bullrun
The first major bloodshed Fort Sumter fell. An army of
30,000 inexperienced Union soldiers on its way toward the
Confederate capital at Richmond, only 100 miles from
Washington, D.C., came upon an equally inexperienced
Confederate army encamped near the little creek of Bull
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Battle of Shiloh
Grant gathered his troops near
a small Tennessee church named Shiloh, which was close to the
Mississippi border. Thousands of yelling Confederate
soldiers surprised the Union forces. Many Union troops were shot
while making coffee; some died while they were still lying in their
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Battle of Richmond
After going through the cold winter waiting till spring here slowly going to the confederate capital slowly pushing out of Kentucky
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Battle of Auntietum
The clash proved to be the bloodiest single-
day battle in American history.
Casualties totaled more than
26,000, as many as in the War of
1812 and the war with Mexico
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Emancipation Proclamation
freed most slaves from the south while they outraged of the freeing of slaves -
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Battle of Gettysburg
Was a accidental conflict of meeting each other in the same town. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. -
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln made a speech of only 2 1/2 minutes for soldiers in Gettysburg for honor -
Surrender at Appomattox
Last battle of the war and only lasted hours -
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth kills Lincoln