Civil War and Reconstruction Timeline

By Gfletch101

  • Lincoln Elected President

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • The Confederate States of America is formed

  • Lincoln Inaugurated

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    Battle of Fort Sumter

  • First Battle of Manassas

  • Battle of Ft. Henry and Donelson

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    Battle of the Ironclads

  • Peninsula Campaign

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    Battle of Shiloh

  • Battle of New Orleans

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Stonewall Jackson Killed

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    Vicksburg

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    Port Hudson

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    Gettysburg

  • Grant Given Command of US

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    Red River Campaign

  • Battle of Wilderness and Spotsylvania

  • Sherman burns Atlanta

  • Freedman's Bureau Created

  • Unconditional Surrender at Appomattox

  • Lincoln Assassinated

  • Battle of Petersburg

  • Reconstruction

  • 13th Amendment

  • Creation of the Klu Klux Klan

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    Memphis Race Riot

  • New Orleans Race Riot

  • 14th Amendment

  • Oscar Dunn Elected as Lt. Governor of Louisiana

  • John Menard Elected to US House of Reps

  • Ulysses S. Grant Elected President

  • Hiram Revels Elected to US Senate

  • 15th Amendment

  • Blanche Bruce Elected to US Senate

  • Ruther B. Hayes Elected President Ending

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson