Civil War
Important Dates
1861

April 12....... Confederate soldiers attacked Fort Sumter

April 15....... Lincoln gave a call for troops

April 19....... Lincoln demanded a blockade of the south

May 21....... The capital of Virginia, Richmond, was picked as the Confederate capital

July 21....... Northern soldiers retreated in disorder after the First Battle of Bull

Run(Manassas)
1862

Feb. 6....... Fort Henry lost to the Union forces

Feb. 16....... Grant's soldiers captured Fort Donelson

March 9....... The ironclad ships, Monitor and Merrimack, (Virginia) battled to a draw

April 6-7....... Both sides suffered some very bad losses in the Battle of Shiloh, who was won by the Union

April 16....... The Confederacy began to take in soldiers

April 18-25....... Farragut attacked and capture New Orleans, Louisiana

May 4...... .McClennan's Union soldiers occupied York town, Virginia, and proceeded on to Richmond

May 30........ Northern administrations occupied Corinth, Mississippi

June 6....... Memphis, Tennessee lost to Union armies

June 25- July 1....... Accomplice administrations under Lee saved Richmond

Aug.27-30, Lee and Jackson led southern troops to victory Of Bull Run.

Sept. 17- Confederate forces repeated a defeat after Antietam.

Sept. 22....... Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Oct. 8....... Buell's forces ended Bragg's invasion of Kentucky in the Battle of Perryville.

Dec. 13....... Burnside's union forces received a crushing blow in the battle of Federicksburg.

Dec. 31- Jan. 2.......1863 Union troops under Rosecrans forced the Confederation to retreat after the battle of Stones River

 

1863

Jan. 1....... Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

March 3....... The North passed a draft law.

May 1-4....... Northern troops under Hooker were defeated in the Battle of Chacellorville.

May 1-19....... Grant's army defeated the Confederates in Mississippi and began to besiege Vicksburg.

July 1-3....... The battle of Gettysburg ended in the Southern defeat and marked a turning point in the War.

July 4....... Vicksburg fell to Northern troops

July 8....... Northern forces occupied Port Hudson, La

Sept. 19-20....... Southern troops under Bragg won the Battle of Chickamauga

Nov. 19....... Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address

Nov. 23-25....... Grant and Thomas led Union armies to victory in the Battle of Chattanooga

1864

March 9....... Grant became general in chief of the North

May 5-6....... Union and Confederate troops clashed in the Battle of the Wilderness

May 8-19........ Grant and Lee held their positions in the Battle of Spotsylvania

Court House

June 3....... The Union suffered many losses on the final day of the Battle of Cold Harbor

June 20....... Grant's troops laid siege to Petersburg, Va.

July 11-12....... Early's Confederate forces almost reached Washington but retreated after brief fighting

Aug. 5....... Farruagut won the Battle of Mobile Bay

Sept. 2....... Northern troops under Sherman captured Atlanta

Sept. 19-Oct. 19.......Sheridan led his troops on a rampage of destruction in the Shenandoah Valley

Nov. 8....... Lincoln was reelected President

Nov. 15....... Sherman began his march through Georgia

Nov. 23....... Hood invaded Tennessee

Nov. 30....... Schofield's Union forces inflicted many losses on Hood in the Battle of Franklin

Dec. 15-16....... The Battle of Nashville smashed Hood's army

Dec. 21 Sherman's troops occupied Savannah, Ga.
1865

Feb. 6....... Lee became general in chief of the South

April 2....... Confederate troops gave up Petersburg and Richmond

April 9....... Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox

April 14....... Lincoln was killed

April 26....... Jonhston surrendered to Sherman

May 4....... Confederate forces in Alabama and Mississippi surrendered

May 11....... Jefferson Davis was captured

May 26....... The last Confederate troops surrendered

 
The Causes of the Civil War

In the year 1861, the United States had twenty-four states. In nineteen of those states, the black people lived free. In the other fifteen states, the black people were bought and sold and lived as slaves.

President Lincoln called the nation "a house divided." The Americans had much in common, but the free and the slave states also had many basic differences besides slavery. The slavery issue and desire to govern the states separately eventually led to the Civil War. The people of our country fought for the basic human rights of it's citizens and for the united country.

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