Civil War Annotated Timeline

Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

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

Battle of Bull Run (1st)

Jul 21, 1861

Firt real major battle of the civil war. was a five hour battle.

Battle of Hampton Roads

Mar 8, 1862

There was no victory, or win. The U.S. Lt. was John Worden.

Battle of Shiloh

Apr 6, 1862

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.

Battle of Antietam

Sep 17, 1862

forced the Confederate Army to retreat back across the Potamac River. Present Abraham Lincoln then made the Emancipation Proclamation.

Battle of the Bull Run (2nd)

Nov 26, 1862

Confederate victories of the American Civil War. It was the second battle of the bull run. It was a Union Victory

Battle of Fredricksburg

Dec 11, 1862

Confederate Victory. General was Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. U.S.-Gen. Robert E. Lee

Emanipation Proclamation.

Jan 1, 1863

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."

Battle of Chancellorsville,

May 1, 1863

Confederate Victory by Lee's union victory

Siege of Vicksburg

May 18, 1863

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.

Battle of Gettysburg

Jul 1, 1863

Union Victory.

Ratification of the 13th Amendment

Jan 31, 1865

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.

Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

Apr 9, 1865

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

Assaissination of Abraham Licoln,

Apr 14, 1865

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

Siege of Atlanta

Jul 22, 1865

Union Victory.
Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman [US]; Gen. John Bell Hood [CS]