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Fort Sumter
AT 4:30 AM the Confederates fired upon Fort Sumter, The battle lasted 34 hours.The Union was forced to surrender and The Confederacy won. Surprisingly not one soldier from either side had died in battle. -
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Antietam is known as the bloodiest day in U.S. history.The Confederacy is stopped at Antietam by Union forces,By nightfall 26,000 men are dead,wounded, making it the bloodiest day in American history.Robert.E.Lee withdraws to Virginia. The Union had won the battle.The Union victory resulted in President Abraham Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Five days after the Battle of Antietam Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This document stated that on Jan. 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the Confederacy were Freed,But this did not apply to the slave states that had stayed in the Union--Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. -
Battle of GettysBurg
The confederate army met Union troops under General George in the small farm town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.Neither army had planned to fight there, but the armies fought each other for three days.Neither side was able to win. About 51,000 soldiers were killed or wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg.It was the bloodiest battle ever fought in the North.It was also known as The Turning Point in the war. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Vicksburg is the last confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.The Confederacy surrendered to General Grant and the army of west after six weeks of siege.This Battle made the Union in control of Mississippi. -
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address was a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the Soldiers National Cemetery, a cemetery dedicated to Union soldiers that fought in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American civil war. The Gettysburg Address inspired the Union to keep fighting.The speech made it clear that united nation and the end of slavery was worth fighting for. -
Appomattox Courthouse
Voters re-elected Abraham Lincoln.In March 1865,Grant was closing in on Lee at Petersburg.After the union siege the confederate soldiers were near starvation.On April 2, Lee took his army west,hoping to find food and get more confederate troops.As a result peterson fell.The next day, Richmond, the confederate capital fell.The war was finally over.On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. -
Result of the end of the Civil War.
The remaining confederate troops surrendered. The nation is reunited as the civil war ends!Over 620,000 of Americans died in the war with diseases killing twice as many as those lost in battle.50,000 of survivors returned home as amputees. -
Slavery abolished (Finally)
The Thirteenth amendment by the United States Constitution, is passed by congress on Jan. 31, 1865 is finally ratified.Slavery is abolished.(/◕ヮ◕)/
