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In one of the most controversial presidential elections, Republicans nominated Lincoln to run for president and won with absolutely no electoral votes from the South.
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The copperheads were a group of people in political power who were against the Civil War and against Lincoln in his effort to end the Civil War.
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As Lincoln had sent food and medical supplies to Fort Sumter, P.G.T. Beauregard got orders to take Fort Sumter from Confederate president Jefferson Davis and opened fire on the fort until Robert Anderson, commander of the fort, had surrendered.
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Union was winning this battle until confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson made a stand and won the battle.
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Union forms a blockade with their Navy and capture New Orleans.
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Union gained victory against confederates when they fought close to the Tennessee River while Grant's army was under a surprise attack by confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard.
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Being one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, the battle of Antietam ended up a strategic Union victory.
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In this battle of Confederate victory, Union general Burnside attacked Robert E. Lee and the Union loses 13,000 soldiers while the Confederates only lost 5,000.
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5 days after the victory of the battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves from rebel confederate states.
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Congress passed a law that required all men aged 20 and 45 to be enlisted in the Union military.
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This battle unfortunately was a Confederate victory and involved Union general Joe Hooker and Confederate general Robert E. Lee butting heads in this battle.
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Ulysses was assigned to take over the Confederate controlled town of Vicksburg and succeeded in doing so while using the Navy and cutting the south in half as well.
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This battle turned out to be a turning point in the war for the Union in which Robert E. Lee tried to take Gettysburg which had a lot of supplies but ultimately failed because he fought an uphill battle.
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This was a speech delivered by Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg. "Why we fight, dedication to those men."
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While in theater with his wife enjoying time off the horrors of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
