Civil War Annotated Timeline

Timeline created by tiffanyr1 in History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
04/12/1861	Fort Sumter	Confederate Victory. On April 10, 1861, Brig. Gen. Beauregard, in command of the provisional Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina, demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor
07/21/1861	Battle of Bull Run (1st)	Firt real major battle of the civil war. was a five hour battle.
03/08/1862	Battle of Hampton Roads	There was no victory, or win. The U.S. Lt. was John Worden.
04/06/1862	Battle of Shiloh	Union Victory. As a result of the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson, Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, the commander, was forced to fall back, giving up Kentucky and much of West and Middle Tennessee.
09/17/1862	Battle of Antietam	forced the Confederate Army to retreat back across the Potamac River. Present Abraham Lincoln then made the Emancipation Proclamation.
11/26/1862	Battle of the Bull Run (2nd)	Confederate victories of the American Civil War. It was the second battle of the bull run. It was a Union Victory
12/11/1862	Battle of Fredricksburg	Confederate Victory. General was Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. U.S.-Gen. Robert E. Lee
01/01/1863	Emanipation Proclamation.	President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
05/01/1863	Battle of Chancellorsville,	Confederate Victory by Lee's union victory
05/18/1863	Siege of Vicksburg	Union Victory. In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton.
07/01/1863	Battle of Gettysburg	Union Victory.
01/31/1865	Ratification of the 13th Amendment	Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.
04/09/1865	Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse	Union Victory. Early on April 9, the remnants of John Broun Gordon’s corps and Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry formed line of battle at Appomattox Court House. Gen. Robert E. Lee determined to make one last attempt to escape the closing Union pincers and reach his supplies at Lynchburg
04/14/1865	Assaissination of Abraham Licoln,	Shortly after 10.00 p.m. actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's theatre, in Washington D.C. and assassinated, or shot in other words, Abraham Lincoln
07/22/1865	Siege of Atlanta	Union Victory. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman [US]; Gen. John Bell Hood [CS]