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Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation and it freed all slaves in territory captured by the Union Army, after the Northern victory at the Battle of Antietam. Lincoln had no power to enforce the law because the South had created their own nation with their own goverenernment. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
This battle is known as "Lee's Greatest Victory" with 30,000 American soldiers wounded or killed in this battle. For the Union, Stonewall Jackson died and it was the beginning of the end for the commanders of the Army of North Virginia. Then Joe Hooker took over the Union military. -
Gettysburg
The Union Army under General Meade defeats Confederate Lee at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. One of the bloodiest battles of the war, Gettysburg is a turning point, and marks the farthest advance of the Confederate Army into northern territory. -
Pickett’s Charge
Lee orders General George Pickett to assault entrenched Union positions. More than half of the 12,000 Confederate soldiers who participate in the charge are slaughtered as they walk slowly across a little less than a mile field into a hail of gunfire. -
Vicksburg
The South was cut in two by the Union taking control of the Mississippi River. Grant attacked and sieged Vicksburg by entrapping the Confederate Army. Then Port Hudson fell, which was the last Southern bastion on the Mississippi. -
Battle of Atlanta
Sherman's forces defeated the Confederates at Atlanta. It boosted Union's morals and killed the south for victory. Sherman marches to Confederates last stronghold near the sea. The Union burn everything they pass through so the Confederates can't resupply and conback. -
Lee Surrenders
After Lee retreating and then being trapped, Lee surrenders to Grant in a farmhouse in the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia. This ended the Civil War and both sides signed paroles and ended the sectional conflict between the Confederates and Union. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered. -
Slavery Abolished
Slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment. It was ratified by the states and outlawed slavery. -
Reconstruction Act
The Reconstruction Act was based on no mass execution of defeated leaders, no firing squads, and no massacre of citizens. There was a Lincoln Plan with the 10% plan, Johnson's Plan which was very similar to Lincoln, and the Ratical Republican Plan which was the plan that actually took place.