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Recent Event Highlights: Battle of Gettysburg, and 9 more...

Created by spartans_sodolak on Apr 18, 2011

Last updated: 04/19/11 at 06:29 AM

• Battle of Palmito Ranch
  Jul 1, 1865

  After Lee's surreneder at Appomattox Courthouse, there were still some rebels in the south. The Union won the war with this battle

• Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
  Apr 9, 1865

  Robert E. Lee's tropps were being drove back to the south and the Union cornered them at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. This was General Lee's final stand

• Red River Campaign
  May 22, 1864

  This was another futile attempt by the north to take over part of Texas. The north marched up the Red River and was driven out of Texas on May 22, 1864

• Gettysburg Address
  Nov 19, 1863

  This is a short, but very well known speech given by Abraham Lincoln on behalf of those who died in the Battle of Gettysburg.

• Battle of Sabine Pass
  Sep 8, 1863

  This was an attempt of the Unions to take over part of Texas during the war. The South won this battle

• Siege of Vicksburg
  Jul 4, 1863

  Known as the turning point in the war for the Union, this battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi river, therefore cutting the Confederates in half. With the South cut in half, this made it hard for the South to have any communication from each side..

• Battle of Gettysburg
  Jul 1, 1863

  Fought in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the two major forces of the war commanded by Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met in the small town of Gettysburg. This was a great victory for the Union

• Emancipation Proclomation
  Jan 1, 1863

  Abraham Lincoln signed a document called the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in the South. This didn't exactly take an effect in the South because they had seceded from the U.S.

• Battle of Galveston
  Jan 1, 1863

  The Union was trying to blockade the trade ships from reaching Galveston, therefore decreasing the supplies. The South fought back and beat the Union forces.

• Battle of Fort Sumter
  Jul 1, 1861

  Brig. General Beauregard led a small group of Confederate troops armed with cannons to a small Union fort called Fort Sumter and began bombing the fort until the Union surrendered on April 13, 1861. This was the first significant battle of the Civil War

• Texas Secession Convention
  Jan 28, 1861

  The people of Texas were unhappy about the North's lack of respecting the U.S. consitiution ( in the eyes of the south ) so the people of Texas took a vote to secede or not. The vote was passed and Texas then joined the Confederate States of America.