TABLE OF CONTENTS Southern States Form Independent Nation 4 US Army Officers Resign to Join the Confederacy 6 Early Confederate Victories Stun Union Forces 8 Women charge into Battle Disguised as Men 10 War Introduces New Military Technology 12 Freed slaves Join Union Army 14 General Stonewall Jackson Is Accidentally Shot 16 Victories Help the Union 18 Sherman's March to the Sea Destroys the South 20 As Confederates Surrender Union Troops Salute 22 Casualties Make Civil War Bloodiest conflict 24 Lincoln Becomes one of the War's Last Victims 26 12 Key Dates 28 Glossary 30 For More Information 31 Index 32 About the Author 32
SOUTHERN STATES FORM INDEPENDENT NATION In the mid 1800s most people in Slaves were black people who had the United States could not imagine been kidnapped from Africa They the nation splitting in two Yet that were brought to the United States was becoming a real possibility to work Slaves were forced to work Northern and Southern states without pay But slavery was illegal disagreed about slavery The South's in Northern states For decades economy was based on slavery Northern states had been pushing Enslaved people were forced to work PM without
Abraham Lincoln to make slavery illegal throughout the nation On November 6 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president Lincoln was a Northern Republican from Illinois He didn't believe in slavery Republicans wanted to ban slavery in any new US territory or state But they would allow slavery to continue in the states that already had it Lincoln agreed with this plan Southerners did not trust Lincoln They believed he and his supporters would pass laws to end slavery On December 20 1860 South Carolina voted to secede or break away from the nation Six more Southern states followed Alabama Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi and Texas Representatives of these seven states met on February 4 1861 They formed a separate nation They Number of states that left the Union before President Lincoln took office in 1861 called it the Confederate States Slavery was legal in the South It was illegal in the North of America They elected their own president Jefferson Davis Lincoln took office as president of a divided nation on March 4 1861 He Southern states that left the Union created their own nation It was called the Confederate States of America declared that secession was illegal He vowed to reunite the country Lincoln vowed to reunite the country
