Profound divisions existed among Americans over the future course of their country, and especially over the South's "peculiar institution slavery.

- On april 17,1861 VA. Decide to secede from the union. Many delegates especially from the eastern countries of VA. Felt that Lincolns decision to use forces was on act of war.

- Virginia became he largest confederate state.

The Battle of Shiloh

• The small area around a tiny church at Shiloh yielded to this point in the history of the U.S. one of the most castle & tragic battles ever

• The name ironic, in that the dead at Shiloh amended to more Americans dead in every war & battle in U.S. history combined to that point.

Battle of the “Iron Glads”

• The confederacy began to build a fleet of ships clothed in iron planes that made them impervious to enemy cannon fire. Armed with an underwater ram, these ships were designed to slam into ships an sink the enemy’s vessels.

• The 1st of these confederacy “Ironclads” was constructed the burned out hull of the USS Mermen left abandoned the Newport, VA. Shipyards early in the war.

Emancipation of Proclamation

• In 1862, after the unions victory of Antietan Lincolns issued a preliminary decree stating that , unless the rebellious states returned to the union by Jan. 1 freedom would be granted to slave within those states.

• Jan. 1 Lincolns presented the emcipaton proclamation. The proclamation declared, “ all persons held as slaves within any states or designed part of , the state, the people where of shall be in rebellion against the U.S. shall be then, the for world and forever free.

Grants Victory at Vicksburg

• Grant had gained control over a wide swath of the western of the western confederacy & made confederacy armies pay the price for opposing him, while lee had decimated his own army in a series of stralegic & tactical offensives that were unnecessary to the statement the confederacy needed.

Gettysburg Address

• Speech by U.S. president Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in U.S history. It was delivered at the dedication of the soldiers , national, cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 19, 1863 during the civil war.

Grants Campaign in Va.

• Grants failed in the overland campaign either to destroy Lee’s army or capture his capital.

• Grants casuaities averaged 2,000 daily, but unlike any previous union commander, he had limited the offensive prowers of his opponet, with the overland campaign ,the army of the Potomac.

Appomattiox

• Was the final engage of confederate general Robert E. Lee’s army of northern Virginia before it surrender to the union army under Lt. Genulysses. Grant near the end of the American civil war.

Assassination

• On April 14, 1865 shortly after 10pm. Actor John Wikes Booth entered the presidential box at Fords theater in Washington D.C at fatally shot president Abraham Lincoln. As union slumped forward in his seat , Booth leapt onto the stage and escape through the back door. A Dr. in the audience rushed over to examine the presient. Lincoln was then carried across the street to petersens boarding house, where he died early the next morning.

The 1st battle of Bull Run

• The battle of bull run was the 1st major land battle of the american civil war fought on July 21,1861 near Manassas Va.

The battle for the capital

• June 25- July 1, 1862