Civil War Annotated Timeline

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    Battle of Fort Sumter was the starting of the Civil War was with Robert Anderson as the union general and Gen. Beauregard as the Confederate Leader. A Confederate victory was on april 14, 1861.
  • Battle of Bull Run (1st)

    Battle of Bull Run (1st)
    This was the first major battle in the Civil War near Mannassas, Virginia. The Confederate Army was controlled by General Pierre G. T. Beauregard and the Union Army commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston.
  • Battle of Hampton Roads

    Battle of Hampton Roads
    Franklin Buchanan was the Confederate leader and John Warden as the Union leader. This battle was fought on warships in virginia.
  • Battle of Shiloh

    Battle of Shiloh
    Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as the Union Army commander and Gen. Beauregard as the Confederate army battle until the union wins a victory on april 7, 1862.
  • Battle of Bull Run (2nd)

    Battle of Bull Run (2nd)
    The Second Battle of Bull Run was one of the most important battles with Confederate victories of the American Civil War. General George McClellan was the leader of the Union and Robert E. Lee leader of the Confederacy.
  • Battle of Antienam

    Battle of Antienam
    The battle of Antienam was one of the most bloodiest days in American History with leaders General Robert E. Lee for the confederate army and General George B. McClellan for the Union army. There was no perticular winner of this battle but the north did have a stratagic advantage.
  • Battle of Fredricksburg

    Battle of Fredricksburg
    On November 14, Burnside, now in command of the Union Army of the Potomac, sent a soldiers to occupy the area of Falmouth near Fredericksburg. Confederate Army won the battle as Gen. Robert E. Lee as their commander.
  • Emancipation Proclomation

    Emancipation Proclomation
    The Emancipation Proclamation was a law that did not free all slaves in the United States. But it declared free the slaves living in states not under Union control.
  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    Battle of Chancellorsville
    The Union Army was commanded by General Joseph Hooker and leader of the Confederate Army Robert. E. Lee. Robert E. Lee led the confederate army to victory.
  • Siege of Vicksburg

    Siege of Vicksburg
    Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was the commander of the Union Army and Gen. John C. Pemberton as the confederate army leader. Union victory on July 4, 1863.
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg
    Gen. Robert E. Lee commanded the Confederate Army and lost to the Union Army with Maj. Gen. George G. Meade who won on July 3rd.
  • Siege of Atlanta

    Siege of Atlanta
    Gen. William T. Sherman was commanding the Union Army and Gen. John Bell Hood commanding the Confederate Army. There was a Union victory.
  • Surrender at Appomatix Courthouse

    Surrender at Appomatix Courthouse
    Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant.
  • Assaination of Abraham Lincoln

    Assaination of Abraham Lincoln
    John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln while he was attending the performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin,'' Nine hours later, on April 15th at 7:22 AM Abraham dies.
  • Ratification of the 13th Amendment

    Ratification of the 13th Amendment
    It banned slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.