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Election of Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was not supposed to be elected because there were more Democrats. The Democrats split into two groups because they had different believes. There where more Republican votes because the Democrats split in to different groups, so Lincoln won the election. Abraham Lincoln served his term though the Civil War as the president for the north. -
TX Secedes from Union
Houston's election in 1859 as governor seemed to indicate that Texas did not share the rising secessionist sentiments of the other Southern states. Houston refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy and was replaced in March 1861 by his lieutenant governor. -
Houston kicked out of office
When he was sixteen, he ran away from home and grew up with the Cherokee Indians. Houston fought under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 and the Creek Indian War during which he was wounded in the shoulder. In Texas, Houston was elected delegate from Nacogdoches to the Convention of 1833 which met at San Felipe. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. -
Battle of Galveston
The battle of Galveston took place in the morning. The south sent ships to take over Galveston from the Union. A truce was called by the Union. The Confederacy successfully took over Galveston. In all 26 were killed in this battle. -
Battle of Sabine Pass
The Battle of Sabine Pass was fought in 1863. The comfederates won aginst the Union. The Union sailed up the Sabine River to try and reduse Fort Griffin. The confederate fought back and won. The effect this had on the Civil War was that the Union kept blooking the water routs into Texas. -
Red River Campaign
The Red River Campaign, which included the largest combined army-navy operation of the war, was the last decisive Confederate victory of the war.The behavior of Union leaders raised such concerns in Washington that a congressional investigation was called. And one of the North's leading generals was so incensed with the errors of his fellow officers that he called it, "one damn blunder from beginning to end." -
End of Civil War
With Smith's surrender, the last Confederate army ceased to exist, bringing a formal end to the bloodiest four years in U.S. history.During 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4,000 rounds at the poorly supplied fort, and on April 13 U.S. Major Robert Anderson, commander of the Union garrison, surrendered. Four long years later, the Confederacy was defeated at the total cost of 620,000 Union and Confederate dead. -
Battle of Palmito Ranch
The Union and its men defeated over 800 Union soldiers in the last battle of the Civil War. Not until after the battle did the Union hear from one of his prisoners that the confederacy had surrendered a earlier in the war. A few days later, Union officers met with the Union to arrange a truce.
