Lincoln tries to get the states to ratify the constitutional amendment that bans slavery from the United States
Graduates of West Point enter the Civil War with the Battle of Bull Run; July 21, 1861
The CSS Virginia versus the USS Monitor in the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862
Battle between the CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack) and the USS Monitor
Designer of the iron-clad ship the Monitor to fight the ironclad Confederate ship the Merrimack
Seven friends travel for the purpose of joining up with the Confederate army; Battle of Shiloh, Pittsburgh Landing, s.w. Tennessee on the Tennessee River, April 6-7, 1862
Walt Disney film; drummer boy for the Union Army; Battles of Shiloh (April 1862) and later Chickamauga (Sept. 20, 1863)
During Atlanta campaign, Yanks steal a Reb locomotive and try to tear up the track; April 12, 1862
Southern deserter Newton Knight forms the Knight Company on October 13, 1863 to oppose the Confederates in Mississippi; First Battle of Corinth, April 29 to May 30, 1862
Very loosely based on farm owner reacting to the attempt by his Jones County to secede from Mississippi
Pro-Southern film about early Confederate victories: Fredericksburg (Dec. 11-15, 1862), Chancelorsville that led to excessive hubris in Gen. Lee
Film about young boy who joins the Confederate Mosby Raiders (Mosby captured Union General Stoughton March 1863)
Ethnic tensions between Irish immigrants and native Americans leads to infamous New York City draft riots of July 13-16, 1863