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Civil war timeline

By cb8428

  • Fort sumter

    Fort sumter
    April, 12,1861 Lincoln sent troop to reinforc the Union - owned fort in southr carolina
    South fired first
    South won after Union surrendered

  • Battle of Bull run

    Battle of Bull run
    June 21st 1861
    union forces headsed to richmond (confederate Captiol) When they ran into 30,000 confederates
    Picknickers from D.C. come to watch the "end of the Civil War"
    Stonewall jackson leads southern charge
    south wins

  • Antietam

    Antietam
    Antietam Creek,Maryland (Union)
    New Reality of war= New weapons= Lots of death
    6,000 dead, 20,000+ Woudned
    Encipation proclamation

  • Gettesburg

    Gettesburg
    The Turning point of the war
    Lee needed a victory in union territory
    50,000 dead combined
    Pickett's Charge fails

  • Vicksburg

    Vicksburg
    40 days of fighting
    Union victory allowed norht to cnotrol the Missipi
    Helped fulfill the Anaconda Plan
    North Victory

  • Appomattox Courthouse

    Appomattox Courthouse
    April 9,1865 Robert E.Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant Terms of surrender= Southern Forcers could go home & keep Weapons& Horses. Grant gives food to souhtern troops Union Celebrates.