Civil War Timeline

By Lydia Herter

  • THe first election of President Abraham Lincoln

  • Attack on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy

  • The surrender of Fort Sumter to the Confederacy

  • First Battle of Bull Run

  • President LIncoln is re-elected for a 2nd term

  • The Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia falls or is captured by the Union army

  • Confederate States of America is fromed and Jefferson Davis is named its president

  • Confederate States of America is fromed and Jerfferson Davis is named its President

  • David Farragut and the Union Navy captures the seaport of New Orleans

  • Gen. Ykysses S. Grant gets Union victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee

  • Battle of the Ironclads

  • Battle of Shiloh

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

  • General Robert E. Lee is given command of the Army of Northern Virginia

  • Period: to

    The 7 Days Battle

  • Second Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

  • Battle of Antietam

  • President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Union enacts or passes a law creating the first military draft of men into the army

  • Confederate General Thoman "Stonewall" Jackson dies

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • The Fall of Vicksburg

  • The opening of the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville

  • Battles at the Wilderness

  • Battle at Spotsylvania

  • Battle at Cold Harbor

  • Battle at Petersburg

  • Untion General William T Sherman burns Atlanta, GA. to the ground and begins his March to the Sea

  • an finishes his March to the Sea and captures Savannah GA

  • President Lincoln dies and Vice President Andrew Johnson takes over as President of the U.S.

  • The Confederacy and General Robert E Lee surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, VA