Was the civil war inevitable

Civil War Timeline

  • Election of Abraham Lincoln

    Election of Abraham Lincoln
    When Abraham Lincoln is elected out and declared that south state rebellion.
  • Fort Sumter Battle

    Fort Sumter Battle
    A federal outpost in Charleston S.C that was attacked by confederate troops, beginning the Civil war.
  • First Battle of Bull Run

    First Battle of Bull Run
    Was the first major battle of the civil war, and the confederates victory. The battle is also known as the first battle of manassas. It shattered the North'd hope of winning the war quickly. The rebels had won the day.
  • Second Battle of Bull Run

    Second Battle of Bull Run
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam
    The battle of Sharpsburg, was the bloodiest single- day battle of the civil war- and of U.S History. More soldiers were killed in this battle than the deaths of all americans in the American Revolution, war of 1812, and Mexican American War combined. Confederate leaders, McClellan, Lee's Army Union officers.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    Lincoln worked in tensely, thinking, writing, rewriting. He finally wrote the Emancipation Proclamation the order to free the confederate slaves "All persons held as slaves with any state or designated part of a state the people where of shall then be in rebellion against the United states shall be then, thence foward, and forever free."
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg
    Key battle that finally turned the tide against the confederates, General George, G.Meade's Calvary, union forces, confederates raiding party.
  • Gellysburg Address

    Gellysburg Address
    President Lincoln gave a speech called the Gettysburg Address in which he praised the bravery of union soldiers and renewal his commitment to winning the Civil War
  • Surrender of Confederate Forces

    Surrender of Confederate Forces
    Sherman closed in on the last confederate defenders in North Carolina. Lee was forced to retreat from Richmen
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
    they say he was assassinated because of the new slave laws/rules he was shoot in theater