Events of the Civil War

Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

-Confederacy attacks Union soldiers

-Civil War officially begins
-Social

Union Surrender at Fort Sumter

Apr 14, 1861

-Union
-Social

Lincoln Requests Army

Jul 4, 1861

-Union
-Political

Robert E. Lee Assumes Command of Confederacy

Jun 1, 1862

-Confederacy
-Political

Preliminary Emancipation

Sep 22, 1862

-Union
-Political

Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 1, 1863

-Political
-Union
-Battle of Antietam led to this.

Military Draft

Mar 3, 1863

-Political, social, and economic
-Union & Confederacy

Draft Riots

Jul 13, 1863

-Social & Political

Gettysburg Address

Sep 19, 1863

-Speech delivered by Lincoln
-Political & Social

Grant Takes Command

Mar 9, 1864

-Union
-Political

Sherman Burns Atlanta

Sep 2, 1864

-Union

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Nov 15, 1864

-Union

Congress Approves Thirteenth Amendment

Jan 31, 1865

-Political & Social

Second Lincoln Inaugural

Mar 14, 1865

-Political

Fall of Richmond

Apr 2, 1865

-Union

Lee Surrenders

Apr 9, 1865

-Confederacy
-Social