civil war timeline

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  • Fort Sumter

    -First Battle
    -PGT Beauregard
    -General Robert Anderson
    -Confederate victory

  • 1st Bullrun

    -First major battle
    -Joseph E Johnson
    -Irvin McPowell
    -Confederates won

  • 2nd Bull Run

    • Much larger than the first bull run
    • General John Pope
    • General Robert E Lee
    • Confederates

  • Shiloh

    • Important role in union victory
    • Ulysses S Grant
    • Albert sydney Johnston
    • union

  • Antietam

    -Bloodiest battle
    - General anderson
    - general richardson
    - Union

  • Fredeircksburg

    -Largest deadliest battle
    - General Ambrose
    - Robert E lee
    - Confederates

  • Chancellorsville

    • Lost one of thier greatest minds
    • Joseph Hooker -Robert E lee
    • Confederate

  • Vicksburg

    • final major military battle
    • John Pumberton
    • Ulysses S grant
    • Union

  • Gettysburg

    -turning point in war
    - George G Meade
    - Robert E lee

  • Shermans March

    • Showed that north was beating south
    • General sherman
    • General Lee
    • Union

  • Appomattox

    -Last battle of the war
    - Ulysses S Grant
    - Robert E Lee
    - Union Victory