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The dates the 11 states left the union
S.C. Dec. 20th 1860
Missississppi Jan 9th 1861
Florida Jan 10th 1861
Alabama Jan 11th 1861
Georgia Jan 19th 1861
Louisiana Jan 26th 1861
Texas Feb 1st 1861
Virginia April 17th 1861
Arkansas May 6th 1861
Tennessee May 6th 1861
N.C. May 20th 1861 -
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The dates the 11 southern states seceded from the Union
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Confederate States of America is fromed and Jefferson Davis is named its President
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The first election of President Abraham Lincoln
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The surrender of Fort Sunter to the Confederacy
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Attack on Fort Sumter
South Carolina demanded that US army abandon its facilities in South Carolina.Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to help for a rebllion. There were no deaths until April 14 when a gun explosion killed two union soliders. -
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Attack on Fort Sumter by the Confedercy
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First Battle of Bull Run or First Manassas
It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. Each side had about 18,000 troops. The confedrate solider won the battle. Stonewall Jackson got his name here because of how well he stood the his ground. -
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant gets Union victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee
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Battle Of The Ironclads
On March 9, the two vessels engaged each other, and both the Monitor and the Virginia suffered direct hits that failed to penetrate their iron shells. Finally, after four hours, a cannon blast from the Virginia hit the Monitor‘s pilothouse, temporarily blinding the ship’s captain, Union Lieutenant John L. Worden. -
Battle of Shiloh
The overpowering Confederate offensive drove the unprepared Federal forces from their camps and threatened to overwhelm Ulysses S. Grant’s entire command. Repeated Rebel attacks failed to carry the Hornet's Nest, but massed artillery helped to turn the tide as Confederates surrounded the Union troops and captured, killed, or wounded most. -
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Battle of Shiloh
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David Farragut and the Union Navy captures the seaport of New Orleans
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General Robert E. Lee is given command of the Army of Morthern Virgina
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The 7 Days Battle
The Seven Days Battle or Seven Days Campaign took place from June 25 to July 1, 1862 and featured six different battles along the Virginia Peninsula east of Richmond. The Union Army of the Potomac, led by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, was over 100,000 men strong yet was steadily driven away from the ultimate goal of Richmond and back to the James River by Confederates led by a new field commander—Gen. Robert E. Lee. -
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The 7 day battle
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Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas
The Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) proved to be the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign waged between Union and Confederate armies in northern Virginia in 1862. As a large Union force commanded by John Pope waited for Confederate General Robert E. Lee decided to strike first. Lee sent half of his Army of Northern Virginia to hit the Federal supply base at Manassas. Led by Stonewall Jackson. -
Battle of Antietam
It was the first battle to take place on Union soil.It is the bloodest single-day war in American history. -
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
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Battle of Fredericksburg
sent a corps to occupy the vicinity of Falmouth near Fredericksburg. The rest of the army soon followed. Lee reacted by entrenching his army on the heights behind the On December 11, Union engineers laid five pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock under fire. On the 12th, the Federal army crossed over, and on December 13, Burnside mounted a series of futile frontal assaults on Prospect Hill and Marye’s Heights that resulted in staggering casualties. Meade’s division, on the Union left fla -
The Union enacts or passes a law creating the first military draft of men into the army
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Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville, April 30–May 6, 1863, resulted in a Confederate victory that stopped an attempted flanking movement by Maj. Gen. Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker’s Army of the Potomac against the left of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. The Southern victory was diminished by the loss of Lt. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, mortally wounded by his own men who mistook him and his staff for Union cavalry, a loss that would have far-reaching effects on the civil war. -
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Battle of Chancellorsvillie
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Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson dies
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The Fall or Capture of Vicksburg
The Union leader was Maj. Ulysses S. Grant the Confederate leader was Lt. Gen. John C.Pemberton. The Union had 75,000 troops. The Confederate had 34,000 troops. The Union had got the victory there.The Union had 4,800 casualties. The Confederate had 3,300 deaths and about 30,000 people captured. -
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The Fall or Capture of Vicksburg
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Battle of Gettysburg
is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
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The opening of the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville
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Battles at the Wilderness OR The Wilderness Campaign
On May 5, 1864, the Union Army of the Potomac once again locked horns with the Army of Northern Virginia in the dense thickets known as the Wilderness of Spotsylvania. Over the course of two days, the two armies fought to a bloody stalemate, inaugurating a new era of violence in the war in the East. Though badly bloodied in the fighting, the Federals continued their march to the south. -
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Battles at the Wilderness OR The Wilderness Campaign
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Battle at Spotslvania
It lasted a little more than two weeks.Some of the most bloodiest fight in the civil war. After an indecisive battle in the dense Virginia woods known as the Wilderness ended on May 7, Union General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac marched southward, meeting Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia once again at the crossroads town of Spotsylvania Court House the next day. Over the 12 days that followed, Union troops briefly broke the Confederate line, but the rebels managed to clo -
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Battle at Spotsylvania
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Battle at Cold Harbor
Just outside of the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. Cold Harbor was the final battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign, which began in early May 1864 with the Battle of the Wilderness. The main part of the Battle of Cold Harbor was a frontal assault on Confederate lines that ended in nearly 7,000 Union casualties after less than an hour—by some accounts most were lost in as little as 10 minutes. It was one of the most brutal conf -
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Battle at Cold Harbor
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Battle of Petersburg
On June 15, the first day of the Battle of Petersburg, some 10,000 Union troops under General William F. Smith moved against the Confederate defenders of Petersburg, made up of only a few thousand armed old men and boys commanded by General P.G.T. Beauregard. With his defense line overextended and his troops starving, Lee’s right flank suffered a major defeat against Union cavalry under General Phillip Sheridan, and Grant ordered a general attack on all fronts. The Army of Northern Virginia ret -
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Battle at Petersburg
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The Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia falls or is captured by the Union army
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The Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia falls or is captured by the Union army
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Presdient Lincoln is re-lected for a 2nd term
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Union Gen. William T. Sherman burns Atlanta, GA. to the ground and begins his March to the Sea
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Union General William T. Sherman finishes his March to the Sea and captures Savannah, GA.
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The Confederacy and Gen. Robert E. Lee surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Va.
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President Lincoln dies and Vice President Andrew Johnson takes over as President of the U.S.
