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Battle of Fort Sumter (start event)
April 12, 1861 – April 14, 1861
Location: Charleston County, South Carolina
Result: Confederate victory
Beginning of the American Civil War -
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The American Civil War
Countries involved: United States(Union vs Conderates) Union leaders: Abraham Lincoln, Edwin M. Stanton, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, David Farragut, David D. Porter Confederates leaders: Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Raphael Semmes, Josiah Tattnall -
First Battle of Bull Run(First Manassas)
Location: Fairfax County and Prince William County, Virginia
Result: Confederate victory -
Battle of Fredericksburg
December 11–15, 1862
Location: Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, Virginia
Result: Confederate victory -
Siege of Vicksburg (turning point)
May 18, 1863 – July 4, 1863
Location: Warren County, Mississippi
Result: Decisive Union victory
Vicksburg was the key to success for the side who claimed victory and when the Union did just that, the war was changed from that point forward. When the South seceded from the Union they took the most profitable natural factor with them, the Mississippi River. The Mississippi was as important to each side as anything else because it allowed various supplies and products to be traded around nation. -
Battle of Gettysburg
July 1–3, 1863
Location: Adams County, Pennsylvania
Result: Union victory -
Battle of Chickamauga
September 19–20, 1863
Location: Catoosa County and Walker County, Georgia
Result: Confederate victory -
Siege of Petersburg
June 9, 1864 – March 25, 1865
Location: Petersburg, Virginia
Result: Union victory -
Battle of Atlanta
Location: Fulton County, Georgia
Result: Union victory -
Battle of Appomattox Court House
Location: Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Result: Decisive Union victory Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia The Emancipation Proclamation allowed all slaves in the southern states (there were no slaves in the north) to be free. -
End od the War
President Johnson officially declared a virtual end to the insurrection on May 9, 1865.
