The Civil War Timeline

By Aiden Troxell
  • Lincoln's 1st inaugural address

    Lincoln's 1st inaugural address

    Lincoln gave his first inaugural address with the quote "In your hands my dissatisfied fellow country and not in mine is the issue of Civil War."
  • First shots of the war fired at Fort Sumter

    First shots of the war fired at Fort Sumter

    Shots fired, note that this is not the first battle
  • Blockade, The Anaconda Plan

    Blockade, The Anaconda Plan

    The Norths plan to stop the Souths trade
  • Richmond, Virginia became the capital of the Confederacy

    Richmond, Virginia became the capital of the Confederacy

    In the Confederate Capital City of Montgomery, Alabama, the decision was made to name the City of Richmond, Virginia as the new Capital of the Confederacy
  • Battle of Bull Run

    Battle of Bull Run

    This is the first battle fought in the war
  • Nashville, Tennessee falls to the Union

    Nashville, Tennessee falls to the Union

    The Confederate army surrendered Nashville to Union forces
  • Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac

    Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac

    Ironclads battle for the first time
  • The Battle of Shiloh

    The Battle of Shiloh

    Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing both sides lost their highest ranking officer
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    The Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

    A Union victory, the deadliest one day war in american history
  • Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

    Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

    Any slaves in the Confederacy were now proclaimed free by Lincoln
  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg

    The turning point in the Civil war, 180k troops and over 50k casualties.
  • Little Round Top, Second day of Battle of Gettysburg

    Little Round Top, Second day of Battle of Gettysburg

    This location was defended/aided by the 20th Maine led by Joshua Chamberlain
  • Pickett's Charge, Third Day of the Battle of Gettysburg

    Pickett's Charge, Third Day of the Battle of Gettysburg

    Pickett's Charge was an attack ordered by General Robert E. Lee against General George G. Meade's Union positions
  • (Siege) Battle of Vicksburg

    (Siege) Battle of Vicksburg

    The victory in Vicksburg captured the Union the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy's troops in two/half
  • Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

    Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

    Lincoln's address about the war in Gettysburg, Here's the speech: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
  • General Ulysses S. Grant

    General Ulysses S. Grant

    After winning in Vicksburg and cutting the Confederacy in two, Lincoln appointed U.S Grant to General of the Union Army
  • Sherman's March to the Sea

    Sherman's March to the Sea

    A military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia
  • Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

    Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

    Lincoln gives his second inaugural address
    Quote "With Malice towards none, with charity for all"
  • The Surrendering of Robert E. Lee

    The Surrendering of Robert E. Lee

    Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House
  • Lincoln's Assassination

    Lincoln's Assassination

    Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater