American Civil War

By bryfly2
  • Lincoln Election

    Lincoln Election

    Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the Untied States.
  • South Carolina Secedes

    South Carolina Secedes

    South Carolina was the first States to sucede.
  • Confederacy if formed

    Confederacy if formed

    Formed in February 1861.
  • Lincoln's First Inauguration

    Lincoln's First Inauguration

    Lincoln's First Inauguration
  • Bull Run 1

    Bull Run 1

    Manassas Junction, Virginia
    Confederate win
    This is Stonewall's final charge that won the battle.
  • Shiloh

    Shiloh

    Shiloh, Tennessee
    Union victory
    Hurt Confederate army bad and boosted Union moral
  • Chattanooga

    Chattanooga

    Chattanooga, Tennessee
    Union victory
    Gained important railroads.
  • 7 Days Battle

    7 Days Battle

    naer Richmond, Virginia
    Confederate victory
    Lee saved the south in this battle and pushed the fighting back to northern Virginia
  • Second Battle of Manassas

    Second Battle of Manassas

    Manassas, Virginia
    Confederate victory
    Union sulpply trains were captured and/or destroyed
  • Antietam

    Antietam

    Sharpsburg, Mayland
    Union victory
    Turned the tides for the Union and it was the most men lost in 12 hours.
  • Fredericksburg

    Fredericksburg

    Fredericksburg, Virginia
    Confederate victory
    Burnside is replaced by Joseph Hooker
  • Stones River

    Stones River

    Murfreesboro, Tennessee
    Union victory
    The union secured control of Middle Tennessee for the remainder of the war
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    "all slaves shall be free" speech
  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    Battle of Chancellorsville

    Chancellorsville, Virginia
    Confederate victory
    Lee's greatest victory and Stonewall Jackson's death
  • Vicksburg

    Vicksburg

    May 18-July 4
    Vicksburg, Mississippi
    Union victory
    Union takes Vicksburg which is a key to winning the war
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg

    Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
    Union victory
    Turning point of the war and President Lincoln made his speech there 4 months later
  • Chickamauga

    Chickamauga

    Chickamauga, Georgia
    Confederate victory
    Union army retreated to Chattanooga
  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address

    Lincoln's 260 word speech honoring the fallen Union soldiers at Gettysburg
  • The Wilderness

    The Wilderness

    near Richmond, Virginia
    Not a true victory for either side
    First major Union offesive toward the Confederate capital of Richmond
  • Spotsylvania

    Spotsylvania

    Spotsylvania county, Virginia
    Inconclusive
    Part of his mission to take over Richmond but ended in major casualties
  • Lincoln Re-elected

    Lincoln Re-elected

  • Sherman's March

    Sherman's March

    Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia
    Union victory
    Beginning of the end of the Confederacy
  • Franklin

    Franklin

    Franklin, Tennessee
    Union victory
    Union was able to make it back to Nashville
  • Lincoln's Second Inauguration

    Lincoln's Second Inauguration

    Lincoln's Second Inauguration
  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    Last battle of the civil war
  • Official end of the Civil War

    Official end of the Civil War

    The surrender at Appx. Courthouse is considered the end of the war
  • Lincoln Assasination

    Lincoln Assasination

    Lincoln is assasinated at a movie theatre