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The Civil war was mainly started because of a lady named Harriet Beecher Stowe. When antislavery debates rose over the Compromise of 1850, Harriet began to write a story about slavery. In 1852 she published her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It was widely read in the United States and moved many to join the cause of abolition. The election of 1860 really heated things up because Abraham Lincoln won the election and he was against slavery. As soon as Lincoln won about a month later on December 20,1860 South Carolina seceded from the United States and other states joined until that were in the south and wanted slavery to be legal. On February 9,1861 the confederacy is formed
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The Civil War Begins
On April 12,1861 General P. Over 620,000 Americans died in the war. On the battlefield, the Confederates won victories in Virginia at the First Battle of the Bull Run in mid-July, and in Missouri at Wilson’s Creek in August. The Union was successful at the battle of Antietam which prevented Robert E. The Union army and navy began the operations along the upper Mississippi River and along the southern Atlantic coast.
Summary of 1862
Military action continued in eastern and western territories.
Summary of 1863
During May 1-4 the Union army is defeated at the battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. In the west forts Henry and Donelson in February and at Shiloh in April gave the Union control of Tennessee. War, of course, was declared by both sides. As Grant and Lee settled into siege along the Petersburg-Richmond lines, Union victories at Mobile Bay in late August, at Atlanta in early September, and in the Shenandoah Valley in September and October raised Northern hope. T Beauregard opened fire on Major Robert Anderson Union troops on Fort Sumter. The year ended as the Union army defeats the Confederates at The Battle of Chattanooga on November 23-25. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court house in Virginia.
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