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Blcokade of the South
In the blockade, armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area. This also causes them to gain control of the Mississippi River. -
First Battle of Bull Run 1861
In 1861, battle of the civil war in which the south shocked the north with a victory.At one point in the battle, a Confederate officer rallied his troops by pointing his sword toward General Thomas J,Jackson. The officer cried, "there is Jackson standing like a stonewall! -
Grant moves to Tennessee
During this move Grant made a wise move to take Tennessee. Using ironclad gunboats, his forces captured two Confederate river forts. The seizure of Fort Henry opened up river highways into the heart of the South -
Warships Montior and Merrimack Calsh
The battle began when the large and somewhat unwieldy CSS Virginia of the Confederate Steamed Navy steamed into Hampton Roads on the morning of March 8, 1862. They set to work attempting to break the Union blockade. While Virginia was firing on the battery the captain thigh bone was broken by a musket ball. -
The Battle of Shiloh
This 8162 battle, the union forced the confederacy to retreat in some of the fiercest fighting in the Civil War. Commanders on the sides of the rode into the thick of battle to rally their troops. General Johnston was killed, and the command passed to general Pierre Beauregard. -
Fall of New Orleans
On this date, a union fleet led by David Farragut captured New Orleans, the largest in the south. His ships had to run through cannon fire and then dodge burning rafts in order to reach the city. Residents stood on docks and cursed the Yankee invaders, but they were powerless to stop them -
Stonewall Jackson defeats Union Forces
Confederate General Thomas Jackson, commanding force in the Shenandoah Valley, attacked Union forces in late march, Forcing them to retreat across the Potomac. As a result, Union troops were rushed to protect Washington, D.C. Jackson 17,000 men marched 646 miles in 48 days and won several minor battles as they successfully and engaged three Union armies. -
The Seven Days' Battles
They Army of Northern Virginia suffered heavier losses, but it forced McClellan’s army to retreat. In late August, the Confederates won a second victory at Bull Run, and Union troops withdrew back to Washington. Within just a few months, Lee had ended the Union threat in Virginia. -
The Battle of Antietam
23, 00 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of savage combat on September 17, 1862. The Battle of Antietam ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia’s first invasion into the North. This led to Abraham Lincoln issuance of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. -
Lincoln reileves McClellan of command
The General had been commanded of the union troops as they campaigned against the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. McClellan had had several opportunities to9 destroy the opposing army, but this prevented him from doing so. Lincoln is said to have described him as a general with “a bad case of the slow”.
