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President Buchanan had sent a ship carrying men and supplies to FOrt Sumter, but was fired upon by South Carolina gunners.
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President Buchanan had sent a ship carrying men and supplies to Fort Sumter, but was fired upon by South Carolina gunners.
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The states that seceded from the Union (South Caeolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana) formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America.
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Lincoln announced he was going to send a relief expeditions to Fort Sumter and Fort PIckers.
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Lincoln announced he was going to send relief expeditions to Fort Sumter and Fort PIckers.
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Confederates attacked Fort Sumter and started the Civil War.
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Confederates attacked Fort Sumpter and started the Civil War.
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President Lincoln called on the states to provide 75,000 militiamen for 90 days.
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Lincoln becomes president.
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The Confederates took the captured Union Merrimack and refitted it with iron sides.
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The prices on everything was increasing.
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The Union was unprepared for war, the soldiers had little training and many were city residents who had never ridden a horse or fired a gun, unlike the SOuthern soldiers.
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The Confederate Congress voted to set up it's capital in Richmond, Virginia, only 100 miles from the Union capital of Washington D.C.
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Union troops began to march to Manassas. It took them 3 days to reach the battle sight.
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Union General Ulysses S. Grant made a bold move to take Tennessee.
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The Confederate and Union armies collide at Pea Ridge, near the Arkansass-Missouri border.
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Southerners were ssent into action off the coast of Virginia. the Merrimack destroyed two wooden Union ships and ran anouther aground.
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Albert S. Johnston, a Confederate commander on the western front, surprised the Union forces at the Battle of Shiloh, the fiercest fight in the Civil War had seen yet. The Union won.
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Union fleet led by David Ferragut took New Orleans.
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In the spring of 1862, the Seven Day's War took place when McCellan planned to attack Richmond,. When Lee's army of Northern Virginia and McCellan;s army clashed, it became known as the Seven Day's Battle.
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The Union had control of almost every important Atlantic harbor.
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In fall 1862, General Lee decided to invade the Union.
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Women nurses were accepted as part of the Confederacy.
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Battle of Antietam took place, the bloodiest battle of the warm it was a political win for the Union.
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Ambrose Buenside lost his job as a commander of the army of the Potomac after Lee defeated him at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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Lincoln announced he would free all slaves in the rebelling states, and he issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Free blacks in Loisiana, Kansas and others formed their own units. One of these units gained fame for attempting to capture Fort Wagner in South Carolina.
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Protestors against the draft (a system for choosing people for military service) battled police and soldiers in the streets of New York City.
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The Confederates lost the Battle of Gettysburg partly because new technology had amde Lee's tactics outdated. Old muskets had been replaced by new, accurate rifles.
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Gettysburg Address
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Free blacks in Louisiana, Kansas and South Carolina Sea Inslands formed their own units in the U.S. army.
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Battle of Vicksburg ended after a three month siege when General Grant had finally taken Vicksburg. The victory gave the Union complete conttrol over the Mississippi. The COnfederacy had been cut in half.
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President Lincoln went on the sad trip to the Pennsylvanian town of Gettysburg to dedicate the cementery were about 6,000 lay buried.
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Sherman took Atlanta, and he was the first to wage total war. This kind of war was not only to destroy enemy troops, buttheir factories, farmland, railroads and livestock.
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Lee and Grant arranged the terms of surrender. The Union had defeated the Confederacy in the Civil War. The Confederacy surrenders.
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President Lincoln had been assasinated. John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate supporter, went to the theater and shot Lincoln. Booth escaped but was later killed by soldiers sent to capture him.
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Grant's army was twice the size of Lee's. The Union was becoming closer to victory.
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The Civil War changed the way Americans thought about their nation, it helped the federal government expand, and it helped the growth of industries.
