Civil+War+Battles

http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/#fort_sumter http://thomaslegion.net/orderofsecessionofsouthernstates.html http://videoindex.pbs.org/resources/civilwar/mapsandgraphs/index.html#GR03

Using the link above, and others on your own, summarize five points on **__loose leaf__** from the first three battles of the Civil War.



Civil War Timeline

November 6, 1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected president

Dec 20, 1860 - South Carolina secedes from the Union. Jan. 9, 1861 – Mississippi secedes. Jan. 10, 1861 – Florida secedes. Jan. 11, 1861 – Alabama secedes. Jan. 19, 1861 – Georgia secedes. Jan. 26, 1861 – Louisiana secedes.

Jan. 29, 1861 – Kansas admitted to the Union as a free state.

Feb. 1, 1861 – Texas secedes.

Feb 9, 1861 - The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president.

March 4, 1861 - Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as 16th President of the United States of America.

April 12, 1861 – Confederate forces attack Union controlled Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins. April 14, 1861 – Ft. Sumter surrenders.

April 15, 1861 – President Lincoln issues a Proclamation calling for 75,000 militiamen to serve as troops. Lincoln summons a special session of Congress for July 4.

Robert E. Lee is offered command of the Union Army. Lee declines. Lee is from Virginia. April 17, 1861 - Virginia secedes.

April 19, 1861 - President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports. For the duration of the war the blockade limits the ability of the rural South to stay well supplied in its war against the industrialized North.

April 20, 1861 - Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army. "I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children." Lee then goes to Richmond, Virginia, is offered command of the military and naval forces of Virginia, and accepts.

May 6, 1861 – Tennessee and Arkansas secede. May 20, 1861 – North Carolina secedes.

July 4, 1861 – Lincoln speaks to Congress over the conflict. The Congress authorizes a call for 500,000 men.

July 21, 1861 - Battle of First Bull Run