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Kristian Chalmers:Civil War

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  • Abraham Lincoln becomes President

    Abraham Lincoln becomes President

    Abraham is elected the 16th president and is known as the first Republican to become one.
  • South Carolina Secedes

    South Carolina Secedes

    South Carolina adopted an ordinance dissolving the connection between the state and the US.
  • Fort Sumter is Attacked

    Fort Sumter is Attacked

    General Beauregard opened fire on the Union
  • 1st Bull Run

    1st Bull Run

    also known as First Manassas (Confederate forces), in Prince William County, Virginia,
  • George McClellan named commander of Union troops

    George McClellan named commander of Union troops

    President Lincoln made McCellan a commander after the defeat of the Union forces at Bull Run in July 1861,
  • Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack

    Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack

    Also called the Battle of the Hampton Roads (naval engagement)
  • Shiloh

    Shiloh

  • Robert E. Lee Takes Control of Confederate Troops

    Robert E. Lee Takes Control of Confederate Troops

  • 2nd Bull Run

    2nd Bull Run

    It was fought on the same ground as the first one and had more casualties.
  • Antietam

    Antietam

    Was fought on Antietam Creek as a part of the Maryland Campaign and was the fisrt major battle of the American Civil War to take place on Union territory.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    Stated that all should and will be free
  • 54th Massachusetts

    54th Massachusetts

    one of the first official African-American units in the United States during the Civil War.
  • Chancellorsville

    Chancellorsville

    Major battle of the American Civil War
  • General Stonewall Jackson killed

    General Stonewall Jackson killed

    General Stonewall Jackson was wounded by his own men by anccident of May 2, 1863 but died days later when the bullet wound got infected.
  • Vicksburg

    Vicksburg

    the final major military action of the Civil War
  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg

    Lagest number of casualties of the enitre war
  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address

    Delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War
  • Andersonville

    Andersonville

    Prison during the Civil War
  • Fort Pillow

    Fort Pillow

    Massacre that was fought near the Mississippi River
  • Sherman's March

    Sherman's March

    Conducted through Georgia by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Appomattox

    Appomattox

    a series of battles