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The Election of Abraham Lincoln
Location- Washington
Significance- Abraham Lincoln is elected president, the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote. -
Confederacy of the United States is Formed
Location- Alabama
Signifacance- The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president. They split from the Union. -
Fort Sumter
Date- April 12 - April 14 1861
Location- Charleston, South Carolina http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter/fort-sumter-maps/animated-map/
Significance- The Civil War begins.
Who won- Confederates -
First Battle of Bullrun
Location- Bull Run 25 miles west of Washington http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/firstmanassas/first-manassas-maps/first-manassas-july-21.html
Significance- Confederate Gen. Thomas J. Jackson earns the nickname "Stonewall," as his brigade resists Union attacks. Union troops fall back to Washington. President Lincoln realizes the war will be long.
Who won- The Confederates
Who won- The Confederates -
Battle of Fort Henry
Location- Tennessee http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fortdonelson/maps/fortdonelsonmap.html
Significance- The two major water transportation routes in the Confederate west, bounded by the Appalachians and the Mississippi River, became Union highways for movement of troops and material.
Who won- The Union -
Battle of Fort Donelson
Location- Tennessee http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fortdonelson/maps/fortdonelsonmap.html
Significance- The two major water transportation routes in the Confederate west, bounded by the Appalachians and the Mississippi River, became Union highways for movement of troops and material.
Who won- The Union -
Battle of Shiloh
Date- April 6- April 7 1862
Location- Shilo on the Tennessee River http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/shiloh/maps/shilohmap.html
Significance- Confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River results in a bitter struggle with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more men than in all previous American wars combined. Who won - Confederates -
Second Battle of Bull Run
Location- Northern Virginia http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/firstmanassas/first-manassas-maps/first-manassas-july-21.html
Significance- Once again the Union Army retreats to Washington. The president then relieves Pope.
Who won- Confederates -
Battle of Antietam
Significance- The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces. By nightfall 26,000 men are dead, wounded, or missing. Lee then withdraws to Virginia.
Location- Antietam, Marylandhttp://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/maps/antietammap1.html
Who won- The Union -
Battle of Fredricksburg
Significance- Army of the Potomac under Gen. Burnside suffers a costly defeat at Fredericksburg in Virginia with a loss of 12,653 men after 14 frontal assaults on well entrenched Rebels on Marye's Heights. "We might as well have tried to take hell," a Union soldier remarks. Confederate losses are 5,309.
Location- Fredricksburg, Virginiahttp://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fredericksburg/maps/slaughterpenfarmmap.html
Who won- Confederates -
Emancipation Proclamation is Signed
Location- Washington
Significance- The Emancipation Proclamation ordereed the emancipation of all slaves in any state (or part of a state) that did not end their rebellion against the Union by January 1, 1863. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Date- May 1st- 4th 1863
Significance- The Union Army under Gen. Hooker is decisively defeated by Lee's much smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia as a result of Lee's brilliant and daring tactics. Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is mortally wounded by his own soldiers. Hooker retreats.
Who won- The Confederates
Location Chancellorsville, Virginiahttp://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chancellorsville/maps/chancellorsvillemap.html -
Battle of Vicksburg
Date- May 18- July4
Significance- Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton surrendered the Confederate bastion of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Union forces under Major General Ulysses S. Grant.
Who won- The Union
Location- Vicksburg, MShttp://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/vicksburg/maps/vicksburgmap.html
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Battle of Gettysburg
Date- July 1st-3rd 1863
Significance- One of the most important battles of the Civil War. The tide of war turns against the South as the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
Who won- The Union -
Battle of Fort Wagner
Location- Morris Islandhttp://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/batterywagner/maps/batterywagnermap.html
Significance- At dusk July 18, Gillmore launched an attack spearheaded by the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, a black regiment. The unit's colonel, Robert Gould Shaw, was killed.
Who Won- Confederates -
Battle of Chickamauga
Date- Sept. 18th- 20th
Location-Chickamauga, Georgia http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chickamauga/chickamauga-maps/chickamauga-reeds-bridge.html
Significance- A decisive Confederate victory by Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga leaves Gen. William S. Rosecrans' Union Army of the Cumberland trapped in Chattanooga, Tennessee under Confederate siege.
who won- Confederates
Who won- The Confederates -
Gettysburg Address
Location- Gettysburg, PA
Significance- The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. -
Battle of Chattanooga
Location- Hamilton County, Tennessee http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chattanooga/chattanooga-maps/battle-of-lookout-mountain.html
Significance- The Federals held Chattanooga, the “Gateway to the Lower South,” which became the supply and logistics base for Sherman’s 1864 Atlanta Campaign.
Who won- The Federals
Who won- The Union -
Spotsylvania Court House
Date- May 8th-21st
Significance- Lee's Confederates, however, managed to get ahead of the Federals and block the road. For the next two weeks, the two armies slugged it out in some of the fiercest fighting of the Civil War.
Location- Spotsylvania County, Virginia http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/spotsylvania-court-house.html?tab=visit
Who won- Inconclusive -
Battle of Cold Harbor
Date- May 31st- June- 12th
Location- Cold Harbor, Virginia http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/coldharbor/cold-harbor-maps/battle-of-cold-harbor.html
Significance- One of the most lopsided engagements of the war.
Who won- The Confederates -
Lincoln is re-elected
Location- Washington
Significance- With his re-election, any hope for a negotiated settlement with the Confederacy vanished. -
Shermans March to the Sea
Date- Nov. 15th- Dec. 21st
Location- Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/shermans-march-to-the-sea-summary-facts-timeline.html#lesson
Significance- General Sherman had union mach through the south and destroy everything including building's, livestock, and all resource's.
Who won- The union -
Battle Of Sailor's Creek
Location- Sailor's Creek, Virginia http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/sailorscreek/maps/map.html
Significance- Last battle of the Civil War. Lee surrenders 3 days later.
Who won- The Union -
Surrender at Appomattox
Location- Northern Virginia
Significance- It was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War. -
Assassination of Lincoln
Location- Washington D.C.
Significance- The president has been killed and the world was shocked. It was the first president assassinated. America lost a leader and a hero.