Civil War timeline

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best selling novel of the 19th century. It made people have a specific look on civil war.
  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston. South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army. That started the American Civil War.
  • First Battle of Bull Run

    First Battle of Bull Run
    The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First Manassas, was the first major battle of the American Civil War. The battle was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County. Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 30 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C.
  • Battle of the Ironclads

    Battle of the Ironclads
    The Battle of Hampton Roads. Also referred to as the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack or the Battle of Ironclads, was a naval battle during the American Civil War.
  • Shiloh

    Shiloh
    The Battle of Shiloh was one of the first battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
  • Battle of Seven Pines

    Battle of Seven Pines
    The Battle of Seven Pines, also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks or Fair Oaks Station, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.
  • Antietam

    Antietam
    The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American civil war, fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate Gen. Robert E Lee’s army of north Virginia and Union Gen.
  • Fredericksburg

    Fredericksburg
    Fredericksburg is a city in Texas. The city has a german heritage shown on its display at their museum.
  • Chancellorsville

    Chancellorsville
    The battle of chancellorsville was a major battle in the civil war. It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863 in Spotsylvania County.
  • Vicksburg

    Vicksburg
    The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.
  • Battle of Brandy Station

    Battle of Brandy Station
    The Battle of Brandy Station, also called the Battle of Fleetwood Hill, was the largest predominantly cavalry engagement of the American Civil War, as well as the largest ever to take place on American soil.
  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg
    The battle of Gettysburg was fought in July 1863 which was fought all the way to Pennsylvania.
  • Battle of Chickamauga

    Battle of Chickamauga
    The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 18–20, 1863, between U.S. and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a Union offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.
  • Battle of the Wilderness

    Battle of the Wilderness
    The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's and General George G. Meade's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
  • Battle of Spring Hill

    Battle of Spring Hill
    The Battle of Spring Hill was fought November 29, 1864, at Spring Hill, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War.
  • Battle of Five Forks

    Battle of Five Forks
    The Battle of Five Forks was fought on April 1, 1865, southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, around the road junction of Five Forks, Dinwiddie County, at the end of the Siege of Petersburg, near the conclusion of the American Civil War.
  • Appomattox

    Appomattox
    The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
  • Lincoln assassination

    Lincoln assassination
    Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War.
  • Battle of Palmito Ranch

    Battle of Palmito Ranch
    The Battle of Palmito Ranch, also known as the Battle of Palmito Hill, is considered by some criteria as the final battle of the American Civil War.