Civil War Timeline

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  • Fort Sumter

    start of war

  • First battle of Bull Run

    First Confederate victory.Shows the war will be long

  • Glorieta Pass

    Gettysburg of the west for stopping Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory

  • Shiloh

    First major battle of the western theater

  • Antietam

    Bloodies day in american history

  • Fredericksburg

    Largest amount of troops involved in battle

  • Chancellorsville

    Lee's greatest victory of the war

  • Vicksburg

    Union victory that split the Confederacy in half

  • Gettysburg

    Bloodiest battle of the war

  • Appomatox

    End of war