Civil War Timeline

By Angelinnnaaa

  • John Brown raids Harpers Ferry

    This was one of the immediate causes of the civil war

  • Lincoln's Inauguration

    This was the date that Lincoln was officially in office

  • Georgia Seceded from the Union

  • Civil War begins with attack on Fort Sumter

    This was an attack on the union by the confederate states

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    All people held as slaves in any state or part of state waging war against the U.S shall be forever free

  • Sherman's march to sea

  • First prisoners in Andersonville Prison

    On this date 600 union prisoners were transferred here

  • Battle of Atlanta