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May 1865
Remaining Confederate surrendered. The Nation is reunited as the Civil War ends. Over 620,000 Americans died in the war, with disease killing twice as many as those lost in battle. 50,000 survivors return home as amputees. -
fort sumter
The first states began to secede from the union in December 1860. At that time, U.S. soldiers were stationed in South Carolina. Led by Major Robert Anderson, soldiers climbed into boats and took control of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The people in Charleston were angry that the Union soldiers had taken the fort.The next day, Confederate forces took control of three nearby forts. They wanted to remove the Union soldiers from Southern soil. surprisingly nobody was killed in the battle. -
Battle of Antietam
September 17, 1862 - 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,making it the bloodiest day in American history.Lee then withdraws to Virginia. The Union had won the battle. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Five days after the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This document stated that on January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the Confederacy were emancipated, or freed. It did not apply to slave states that had stayed in the Union—Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. -
battle of gettysburg
General Robert E. Lee’s army had defeated the Union in several battles. On July 1, 1863, Lee’s army met Union troops under General George Meade in the small farm town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. For three days, the armies fought each other. Neither side was able to win.In all, about 51,000 soldiers were killed or wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg. It was the bloodiest battle ever fought in North America. Union victories at Gettysburg and later Vicksburg turned the war in favor of the North. -
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldiers National
Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The Gettysburg Address inspired the union to keep fighting. The speech made it clear that a united nation and the end of the slavery were worth fighting for. -
Battle of Vicksburg
July 4, 1863 - Vicksburg, 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. -
Appomattox Courthouse The South Surrenders
In November 8, 1864, voters re-elected Abraham Lincoln. In March 1865, Grant was closing in on Lee at Petersburg. After the Union siege, Confederate soldiers defending the city were near starvation. On April 2, Lee took his army west, hoping to find food and gather more Confederate troops. As a result, Petersburg fell. The next day, Richmond, the Confederate capital, also fell. The war was over!
On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. -
December 6, 1865
he Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, is finally ratified. Slavery is abolish