Civil War Timeline

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
11/06/1860	Lincoln is Elected	Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States.
12/20/1860	South Carolina Secedes	South Carolina is the first state to secede form the Union.
01/09/1861	Mississippi Secedes	Mississippi was the second state to secede form the Union.
01/10/1861	Florida Secedes	Florida was the third state to secede from the Union,
01/11/1861	Alabama Secedes	Alabama is the fourth state to secede form the Union.
01/19/1861	Georgia Secedes	Georgia was the fifth state to secede from the Union.
01/26/1861	Louisiana Secedes	Louisiana was the sixth state to secede from the Union.
03/02/1861	Texas Secedes	Texas was the seventh state to secede from the Union.
03/28/1861	Robert E. Lee Becomes Commander	Robert E. Lee was commander of the Confederate Army. He was a beast.
04/12/1861	Fort Sumter	The bombings and surrender at Fort Sumter started the Civil War. Fort Sumter is located near Charleston, South Carolina
04/15/1861	Lincoln Calls For 75,000 Volunteers	President Lincoln calls on states for 75,000 volunteers to take care of the rebellion.
04/17/1861	Virginia Secedes	Virginia was the eighth state to secede form the Union.
04/27/1861	McClellan Becomes Commander	George McClellan was a Union commander, and tended to hesistate in battle.
05/02/1861	Burnside Becomes commander	Ambrose Burnside was a Union General and fought at 1st Manassas.
05/06/1861	Arkansas Secedes	Arkansas was the ninth state to secede from the Union.
06/08/1861	Tennessee Secedes	Tennessee was the eleventh state to secede form the Union.
07/21/1861	1st Manassas (1st Bull Run)	!st Manassas was the first major battle of the Civil War.
02/06/1862	Fort Donelson	Fort Donelson was a Confederate fort to control the Cumberland River.
02/11/1862	Fort Henry	The Battle of Fort Henry was the first important victory for the Union.
03/08/1862	Merrimac vs. Monitor	This was the first battle between ironclad ships.
04/06/1862	Shiloh	The Battle of Shiloh was a major battle in the Western Theater.
05/06/1862	Pope Becomes Commander	John Pope was a Union general that had a brief career in the Western Theater, but is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
08/28/1862	2nd Manassas (2nd Bull Run)	Major battle between Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Pope's Army of Virginia
09/17/1862	Sharpsburg (Antietam)	The Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam) was the first major battle of the Civil War fought on Northern soil.
12/11/1862	Fredericksburg	The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought between Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Burnside's Army of the Potomac.
05/18/1863	Vicksburg	The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Union General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army into the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
07/01/1863	Gettysburg	The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is described as the war's turning point.
04/08/1864	13th Amendment	The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
04/30/1864	Chancellorsville	The Battle of Chancellorsville was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville.
06/15/1864	Siege of Petersburg	These nine months of trench warfare in which Union forces commanded by Grant assaulted Petersburg unsuccessfully and then constructed trench lines that eventually extended from the eastern outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, to around the eastern and southern outskirts of Petersburg.
09/02/1864	Atlanta Captured	Hood's army was besieged in Atlanta and the city fell on September 2, speeding up the end of the war.
12/15/1864	Battle of Nashville	The Battle of Nashville was the end of large scale fighting in the Western Theater.
04/09/1865	Lee Surrenders	Lee's launched an attack to break through the Union force to his front, assuming the Union force consisted entirely of cavalry. When he realized that the cavalry was backed up by two corps of Union infantry, he had no choice but to surrender.
04/18/1865	Joseph E. Johnson Surrenders	General Joseph E. Johnson (Confederate) surrenders his remaining Confederate forces to General William Tecumseh Sherman (Union) near Durham, North Carolina