Timeline: Civil War Annotated Timeline

Apr 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

Jul 21, 1861

Battle of Bull Run (1st)

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

Mar 8, 1862

Battle of Hampton Roads

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

Apr 6, 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.

Sep 17, 1862

Battle of Antietam

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

Nov 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

Dec 11, 1862

Battle of Fredricksburg

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

Jan 1, 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."

May 1, 1863

Battle of Chancellorsville,

Confederate Victory by Lee's union victory

May 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.

Jul 1, 1863

Battle of Gettysburg

Union Victory.

Jan 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.

Apr 9, 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

Apr 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