B-2 Jacob Creamer: Civil War Timeline

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • Mississippi Secedes

  • Florida Secedes

  • Alabama Secedes

  • Cenfederate States of America is Formed and Fefferson Davis is named its President

  • The first election of President Abraham Lincoln

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    Attack on Fort Sumter BY the confederacy

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    First Battle of Bull Run
  • Gen. Ulysses S Grant gets Union victories at Fort Henery and Fort Donelson in Tennessee

  • Battle of Ironclads

    Battle of Ironclads
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    Battle of Shiloh

  • David Farragut and the Union Navy captures the sea port of New Orleans

  • Gen. Robert E. Lee is given command of the Army of Northern Virginia

    Gen. Robert E. Lee is given command of the Army of Northern Virginia
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    The 7 day Battle

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    Secound battle of Bull Run or Secound Manassas

  • battle of Antietam

    battle of Antietam
  • President Lincoln issues the Emancepation Proclamation

  • President lincoln is elected for a 2nd term

  • Battle of Fredricksburg

    Battle of Fredricksburg
  • The Union enacts a law creating first military draft of men into the army

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    Battle of Chancellorsville

  • Confederate Gen. Thomas "stonwall" Jackson dies

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    Battle of Gettysburg

  • Fall of Vicksburg

    Fall of Vicksburg
  • Opening of POW campAndersonville

    Opening of POW campAndersonville
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    The Wilderness Campain

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    Battle of spotsylvania

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    Battle of Cold Harbor

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    Battle at peetersburg

  • union Gen. William T. Sherman burns Atlanta, GA. to the Ground and begins his march to the sea

  • Abraham lincoln gets re-elected for president

    Abraham lincoln gets re-elected for president
  • Union General William T Sherman finishes his march to the sea and captures savannah, GA.