Civil War Timeline

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    Civil War Timeline

  • Battle at Fort Sumter

    Battle at Fort Sumter

    It was were the North and the South meet to fight and the north won.

  • Abe Lincoln orders blockade of the south

    It closed 3,500 miles, it was know as the Andaconda plan, It blocked the Confederates from the west.
  • 1st Battle of Bull Run

    1st Battle of Bull Run

    It was the first major land battle of the Civil War.
  • Ulysses S. Grant takes over the Union Army

    Ulysses S. Grant takes over the Union Army

    As commanding general of the Army, Grant confronted Robert E. Lee that had many deaths battles in 1864
  • Monitor vs. Virginia naval battle

    Monitor vs. Virginia naval battle

    The battle was a part of the act of the Confederacy to break the Union blockade
  • Battle of Shiloh

    Battle of Shiloh

    There was a a surprise attack, It took place at the Pittsburg Landing, The union won
  • 7 Days Campaign

    7 Days Campaign

    a series of six major battles over the seven days, The Union attacked in Oak Grove
  • 2nd Battle of Bull Run (or 2nd battle of Manassas)

    2nd Battle of Bull Run (or 2nd battle of Manassas)

    The battle was big, fought on the same ground as the first one.
  • Antietam

    Antietam

    It was the bloodiest day in American military history
  • Emancipation Proclamation issued

    Emancipation Proclamation issued

    It freed 50,000 slaves, it gave the slaves freedom
  • Emancipation Proclamation takes effect

    Emancipation Proclamation takes effect

    Everyone was rebeling from the states
  • Battle at Chancellorsville

    Battle at Chancellorsville

    They tried to flank and they attacked in the wilderness, The confederates won.
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg

    The battle with the largest number of deaths in the Civil War
  • Siege of Vicksburg (use the date it ended)

    Siege of Vicksburg (use the date it ended)

    They surronded Visksburg and they had the largest number of deaths of any war.
  • . Gettysburg Address

    . Gettysburg Address

    Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Many well know speechs.
  • Battle at Chattanooga

    Battle at Chattanooga

    Artillery bombardment by Union, they evicate the cities
  • Sherman captures Atlanta

    Sherman captures Atlanta

    Union Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson was killed during this battle, helped the rail supply in atlanta
  • Abraham Lincoln re-elected

    Abraham Lincoln re-elected

    The war was in its fourth year, military was changed a lot, 5 months the collapse of the Confederacy was complete.
  • Sherman begins march to the sea

    Sherman begins march to the sea

    He began by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines
  • Abraham Lincoln elected president

    Abraham Lincoln elected president

    hope for a settlement with the Confederacy vanished from the U.S.
  • Savannah, GA falls to the Union

    Savannah, GA falls to the Union

    they captured Savannah,GA, reated a military barrier that stretches from east to west across The union got more land
  • Union Army moves in and occupies Richmond, VA.

    Union Army moves in and occupies Richmond, VA.

    Richmond had rail and industry, military hospitals, and prisoner-of-war camps and prisons,
  • Abraham Lincoln shot and killed

    Abraham Lincoln shot and killed

    took place on Good Friday, he was assaniated in a movie theator, as the Civil War was drawing to a close.
  • Robert E. Lee surrenders

    Robert E. Lee surrenders

    28,000 troops to Union General,
  • 13th Amendment passed

    13th Amendment passed

    It officially ended slavery.