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Secession of Virginia
Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months. The call that Lincoln provoked a different reaction in the states of the upper south. Virginia unwilling to fight against southern states on April 17. -
Ft. Sumter
Seven Southernmost states had an alliance formed the confederate states of america on February 4,1861. Confederate soldiers immediately began taking over federal installations. Abraham's inauguration on March 4, only two southerns forts remained in Union hands. More important was South Carolina's Fort Sumter, on an island in Charleston harbor. -
Battle at Bull run
The battle was near Manassa, Virginia. It was the first major battle of the civil war. The North had 3,000 casualities and the south had 1,750 casualities. -
Battle at shiloh
Grant wanted to obtain Corinth, that if was obtained the union would control the region. This was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. The Union had more than 13,000 causalities and the confederates had more than 10,000 causalities. -
Battle at Richmond
This was the political home of the Confederates. The Union had been defending the town of Richmond, Virginia. Union had 206 casualties. The Confederates had 78 causalities. -
Battle at Antietam
The Battle was a Union victory. 23,000 causalities on both sides. This was one of the bloodiest single day of the Civil war. Union victory led to the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1 Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. Proclamation did not free any slaves because it only applied to areas behind the Confederate lines outside Union control. -
Battle at Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg crippled the south so badly that General Lee would never again possess sufficient forces to invade a Northern state. First four days in May, the south defeated the north at Chancellorsville, Virginia. -
Gettysberg Address
In November. a ceremony was held to dedicate a cemetery in Gettysburg. Lincoln's Gettysburg address "remade America". Before the war started people said, "The United States are". After Lincoln's speech, they said, "The United States is". -
Surrender at Appomattox
Twin defeats Gettysburg and Vicksburg cost the South much of its limited fighting power. Confederacy was low on food, shoes, uniform, guns and ammunition. President Lincoln finally found not just one but two generals who would fight. -
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln had plans to reunify the nation after the war, he never got to implement them. On April 14, 1865, five days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court house. Lincoln and his wife went to a theatre and someone silently opened the unguarded doors to the presidential box. He crept up behind Lincoln, raised a pistol up to his head and fired.
