Chud test
Admiral David Farragut
led 18 Union ships into Mobile Bay, never took Mobile but sealed off Mobile bay
March to the Sea
marched to Savannah,GA then to South Carolina, burned Columbia,SC(the capitol) demorilized, destroyed south
George Meade
replaced Hooker,
Joseph Hooker
replaced burnside, Led Union Battle of Chancelorsville, lost
Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
turning point in the war, Union victory, Bloodiest battle, Union controlled high ground,(Little round top)
Grant
union general, defeated lee, East
Battle of Chickamauga
union surrounded at chattanooga, Lincoln put Grant in overall command
Battle of Spotsylvania
11 days, hand to hand combat, turning into war of attrtion
Pickett's Charge
15000 men attacked cemetary ridge, 30 min lost 7000 men
McClellan
Antietem Victory, Union, Too cautious
Battle of the Wilderness
Civil War battle in 1864 in Virginia, won by the Confederacy
Braxton Bragg
Confederate general who won the Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Cold Harbor
Confederate victory
Battle of Fredricksburg
Confederate victory, Union lost over 12,000
Battle of Chancellorsville
Confederates were outnumbered, Both sides split their troops, Confederate Victory, Stonewall is killed
Pettersburg
Grant put it under siege, bc it was heavily defended, cut off railroad to richmond
July 4, 1863
Lee and his men retreated to VA, Vicksburg also surrendered
April 1865
Lee surrenders to grant, in Appomattox Courtouse
April 14, 1865
Lincoln assassinated
McClellon Vs Lincoln-1864
McClellon promised to end the war Lincoln said he would finish it lincoln won with 55% after Union captured Atlanta
Burnside
Replaced McClellan, Too aggressive, lost battle at fredricksburg
Atlanta/Sherman
Sherman burned Atlanta n& ordered civilians to leave
william tecumseh sherman
Union General in the west, led March to the Sea
John Wilkes Booth
assassinated Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
13th Amendment (1865)
banned slavery in the USA
George Pickett
confederate, led Picketts charge
Henry Wirz
executed for war crimes, Commandant of Andersonville, GA