Civil War Major Events

By EthanAltena

  • Battle of the Crater

    The Battle of the Crater, part of the Petersburg Campaign, was the result of an unusual attempt, on the part of Union forces, to break through the Confederate defenses just south of the critical railroad hub of Petersburg, Virginia, during the American Civil War

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

    Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant,

  • South Carolina Secedes from the Union

    When Abraham Lincoln got elect a man named Jefferson Davis led a disunion across the slaveholding South.

  • Confederation is Official

    a collection of 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860

  • Battle of Fort Sutmer

    forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    A battle that was the first full-scale battle of the Civil War.

  • Battle of Phillippi

    a brutal killing match with much confusion and little generalship on either side.

  • Battle of Mill Springs

    led to the total collapse of the eastern sector of the Confederate defensive line established to defend the Upper South and hopefully secure Kentucky's allegiance to the Southern cause.

  • Battle of Hampton Roads

    the first engagement of ironclad warships during the Civil War and was fought between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia.

  • Battle of Malvern Hill

    Though a Union victory, it brought an end to the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles

  • Seige of Yourktown

    joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender.

  • Battle of Beaver Dam Creek

    Beaver Dam Creek was a Union victory. Porter's Fifth Corps stood firm and won a battlefield victory. Lee had lost his first battle as commander of the Confederate army

  • Battle of Cedar Mountain

    A Confederate counterattack led by Hill on the Union right repulsed the Federals and won the day.

  • Battle of Antietam

    pitted Union General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.

  • Battle of Fredricksburg

    one of the largest and deadliest battles of the Civil War

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    a huge victory for the Confederacy and General Robert E. Lee during the Civil War

  • Seige of Vicksburg

    gave control of the Mississippi River—a critical supply line—to the Union, and was part of the Union's successful Anaconda Plan to cut off all trade to the Confederacy.

  • Seige of Port Hudson

    a critical supply line to the Union, and was part of the Union's successful Anaconda Plan to cut off all trade to the Confederacy.

  • The delivery of the Gettysburg Address

    to commemorate a new national cemetery at Gettysburg during the American Civil War

  • Lincoln was Reelected

    A former president that ran for the possition twice