Thursday, May 17, 2012

The TimeLine of the Civil War

1861- The sout seceds and also when Abraham Lincoln was a oppenent slavery and he got selected to be president of the U.S and Sout Carolina legislature perceived a threat calling a state convention. And Abraham Lincoln sent supplies to fort sumter and they got attacked.
1862- On January 27 Lincoln took action and declared war against the confederecy. lincoln took over and kicked McClellan out of the head guy to contol the war for the side they were on . On December 1862 McClellan and Lee joined together and started the Fredericksburg war and they fought the war against Lincoln.
1863- Its when the first conscription act started which made men between the age of 20 and 45 liable to be called military serveices. On April 27 Hooker crossed the Rappahannock river to attack general Lee's forces.
1864- General GrantsWilderness Campaign had started and planned to attack General Lee's forces during the night. And the Cold Harbor had started in that year and Grant attacked the Confederates at the Pearl harbor and lost 7,000 mean in twenty minutes.
1865- This was the last year of the year but a lot of things still went on with the many diffent battles in the Civil War. And Abraham got assainated in this year in April 14 while he was watching a performance at the Fords Theater in Washington D.C and the play was Our American Cousins. And it was getting to the point were alot of soliders were starting to surrender.

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