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Timeline of events of the Civil War
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Fort Sumter
The Confederacy demanded that the Union Army surrender the garrison the Fort Sumter to the Confederacy. The Union commander refused. First shots were fired by the Confederacy at Fort Sumter, SC to remove the Union garrison stationed there. Lincoln was not going to use force to keep the fort and the Union garrison lost the battle. -
Bull Run
did not pursue the retreating union army, Citizen watched the battle,Southern Victory -
Shiloh
Costly victory for grant,Demestrated the cost of victory would be great. -
Antietam
Bloodiest single day of the war,Union victory for mclellan -
Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign.It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. -
Siege of Vicksburg
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Vicksburg led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
Grant in VA
Grant follows Lee.Grant Attacks repeatedly at great loss of life,Licoln wants speedy end to war -
Sherman’s March
Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 16 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. -
Battle of Appomattox Court House
Lee's final stand was at Appomattox Court House he had no choice but to surrender. The signing of the surrender documents occurred in the parlor of the house owned by Wilmer McLean on the afternoon of April 9. On April 12, a formal ceremony marked the disbandment of the Army of Northern Virginia and the parole of its officers and men, effectively ending the war in Virginia
