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First Battle of Civil War
This was the first battle of the civil and a very important historical event.
This battle lasted 2 long days at fort sumter.
Noone was killed.
The south won this battle. -
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Civil War Events
The timespan Of The Civil War Era.
The civil war war was considered the bloodiest war in american history, even to today.
1/2 million people died. -
The First Manassas
The second battle of the civil war.
The south won this battle.
Not many died. -
Battle of Ironclads
On March 8, 1862, from her berth at Norfolk, the Confederate ironclad Virginia steamed into Hampton Roads where she sank Cumberland and ran Congress aground. On March 9, the Union ironclad Monitor madly arrived to do battle, initiated the first engagement of ironclads in history.
This battle was betweenthe Mantor and the Merrimac or the Virginia.
It lasted two days, March 8th and March 9th. -
2nd Manassas
In order to draw Pope’s army into battle, Jackson ordered an attack on a Federal column that was passing across his front on the Warrenton Turnpike on August 28. The fighting at Brawner Farm lasted several hours and resulted in a stalemate. Pope became convinced that he had trapped Jackson and concentrated the bulk of his army against him.this is the start of his battle. The south won this battle. -
Antietam
This battle was fought in Maryland.
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
23,500 people died that horrific day.
The south won this battle also. -
Battle of Fridricksberg
The north had 122,000 men and the south had 78,500 men.
This battle lasted two days. -
Chancelorville Battle
This battle lasted thirteen days -
Brandy Station Battle
The Battle of Brandy Station, also called the Battle of Fleetwood Hill, was the largest predominantly cavalry engagement of the American Civil War, as well as the largest ever to take place on American soil.[3] It was fought on June 9, 1863, around Brandy Station, Virginia, at the beginning of the Gettysburg Campaign by the Union cavalry under Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton against Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate cavalry. -
Vicksberrg
the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, surrenders to Gen. Grant and the Army of the West after a six week siege. With the Union now in control of the Mississippi, the Confederacy is effectively split in two, cut off from its western allies. -
Draft Riots
When the government attempts to begin conscription, riots break out in New York and other northern cities. In New York, 120 men, women and children—mostly black—are killed before Union troops returning from Gettysburg restore order. -
Gettysburg Address
President Lincoln delivers the two-minute Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. -
Virginia Campaign
Beginning a drive aimed at ending the war, Ulysses S. Grant and 120,000 troops march south towards Richmond, the Confederate capital. Over the course of the next six weeks, a brutal war of attrition results in the deaths of nearly 50,000 Union soldiers. -
Siege of Petersburg
RANGEEND_VIRGINIACAMPAIGN With the beginning of the Siege of Petersburg, south of Richmond, the mobile war of the past month ends, replaced by a nine-month siege. -
Palmito Ranch
Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. The last battle was fought at Palmito Ranch, Texas, on May 13, 1865.