Civil War

By DinaJawetz
  • Abraham Lincoln Elected

    Abraham Lincoln Elected

    Abraham Lincoln was a republican. He was opposed to the extension of slavery but would allow it to remain where it al ready existed

  • Treaty of Peace

    CSA - we left so there would be no more fighting
  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    Battle of Fort Sumter

    located in SC
    confederacy considered Lincolns sending of an unarmed ship an act of war, and the war officially begun

  • Battle of Perryville

    Buells forces ended Baggs invasion of kentucky in the Battle of Perryville
  • Emancipation Proclomation

    Emancipation Proclomation

    Lincoln made all slaves free

  • Battle of Stones River

    union troops forced confederate soldiers to retreat after this battle
  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address

    Lincolns speech in Gettysburg
  • Period: to

    Battle of the Wilderness

    The union attacked in the first of many battles. The union gained little and lost many soldiers

  • Lee becomes General

  • End of Civil War

    Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.

  • Lincolns assasination

    Lincoln was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth at a theatre in Washington D.C.