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Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, erupting the war. After Lincoln was elected the North and South divided because the South wanted to keep the establishment of slavery and the North not so much, and many felt that Lincoln would go through with abolishing slavery.
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States seceded from the Union. Lincoln stated that these acts of secession were illegal and sent soldiers to deal with the rebellion. In April of 1861, the first shots were fired. Both sides were determined to win, the North lost many lives to the Confederate forces, and the South was more than overrun by the North.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was a Fort Sumter which is located in the middle of the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. The Confederates wanted to take the fort. The attack on Fort Sumter made the North come and defend it. Lincoln told all the states to send forces to gain back the fort. Some states rejected Lincolns orders declaring their secession joining the Confederacy. There were no casualties.
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The First Bull Run Battle started with a march by Union troops under the command of Major General Irvin McDowell and the Confederate forces led by Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard. The Union was on top pushing confederate forces while holding defense. But Confederate reinforcements arrived and the battle turned.
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The Union Army of Tennessee moved near the Tennessee River camping by Pittsburg Landing on the west bank of the Tennessee River when the Confederate Army of Mississippi launched a surprise attack on Grant's army from its base. Grant finally got reinforcements, joined by three divisions. The Confederates hoped to defeat Grant's army before the reinforcements appeared. The Union army had suffered major casualties and Grant was heavily criticized in the media for being taken by surprise.
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The Second Battle of Bull Run was in Prince William County, Virginia. It was the rising of the Northern Virginia Campaign executed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia. This Bull Run battle was way bigger than the first one that was fought on the same ground. The attacks had many heavy casualties on both sides. The Union had a casualty forcing them to retreat, it prevented a replay of the first battle.
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McClellan had more people but his attacks failed, this is why McClellan failed to destroy Lee's army. McClellan did manage to stop Lee's invasion of Maryland, with major loss's and Lee was able to withdraw his army back to Virginia without interference. The Confederate troops had withdrawn first from the battlefield and abandoned their invasion. It gave Lincoln the confidence to announce his Emancipation Proclamation. Freeing more than 3.5 million slaves in the Confederate states.
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The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought around Fredericksburg, Virginia. The combat, between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee, included ineffective frontal attacks by the Union Army. aIt is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the war, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates. Burnside pulled out his army.
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The battle had the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point due to the Union's victory. Cavalry battles from east and south, but the main event was a big infantry assault by 12,500 Confederates against the center of the Union line known as Pickett's Charge. The charge was repelled by Union rifle and artillery fire. Lee and his army retreated, leaving the Union a victory.
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Reconstruction is what followed the American Civil War and during which we abolished slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems getting the succeeded back. Some people today even say that Reconstruction is still happening.
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Lee surrendered his army because he wanted to stop more unnecessary destruction to the South. There was nothing more the South could do, they were running out of resources and couldn't break the Unions line.
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The surrender at Appomattox took place a week later on April 9. Gen. Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy's most respected commander, surrendered only his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen.
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