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Surrender at Appomattox Court House

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On April 9, 1865 Gen.Lee surrendered his troops to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in front of the Appomattox Courthouse indicating his want t

Sherman's March to the Sea

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Siege of Vicksburg

At this battle Gen. William T. Sherman led 60,00 soldiers from Atlanta to Savannah, GA. the reason being to intimidate civilians to abandon their Confederate stance. This was an uncommon tactic which was call physiological warfare. In response to this taunt Gen.John Hood fled Atlanta and moved the Army to Tennessee.

On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. Grant's successes in the West boosted his reputation, leading ultimately to his appointment as General-in-Chief of the Union armies.

Battle of Antietam

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The Army of the Potomac, under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee’s forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862.Later, towards the center of the battlefield, Union assaults against the Sunken Road pierced the Confederate center after a terrible struggle.Just as the Federal forces began to collapse the Confederate right, the timely arrival of A.P. Hill’s division from Harpers Ferry helped to drive the Army of the Potomac back once more.

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Battle of Shiloh

On April 6, 1862, 40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the woods and struck Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburgh, Landing on the Tennessee River.During the first day attacks, Gen. Johnston was mortally wounded and was replaced by P.G.T. Beauregard.The two day battle at Shiloh produced more than 23,000 casualties and was the bloodiest battle in American history at its time.

First Battle of Bull Run

Battle of Chantilly

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On September 1, beyond Chantilly Plantation on the Little River Turnpike near Ox Hill, Jackson sent his divisions against two Union divisions under Kearny and Stevens. Confederate attacks were stopped by fierce fighting during a thunderstorm. Union generals Stevens and Kearny were both killed. Maj. Gen. Pope ordered the retreat to continue to Washington.Lee turned his army west and north to invade Maryland, initiating the Maryland Campaign and the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan assumed command of Union forces around Washington.

This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. On July 16, 1861, the Union army under Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn behind Bull Run beyond Centreville. The Federal retreat rapidly deteriorated into a rout. Thomas J. Jackson earned the nom de guerre “Stonewall.”

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The Battle of Fort Sumter

Several federal forts, including Fort Sumter in South Carolina became outposts in a foreign land. Abraham Lincoln made the decision to send fresh supplies to the beleaguered garrisons.

The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War. The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson’s small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, had been preceded by months of siege-like conditions.

Civil War Timeline 1861-1865

Leading Event of the Civil War

  • 1860- Lincoln's Election
  • Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 despite not being included on many Southern ballots.
  • On December 20, 1860 South Carolina seceded from the Union.

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