Civil War Annotated Timeline

Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/sc001.htm Brig. Gen. Beauregard, in command of the provisional Confederate forces at Charleston, demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Garrison commander Anderson refused; on April 12th the Confederate batteries opened fire on the fort. The uion gave up and gave the fort to the Confederate.

Battle of Bull Run 1st

Jul 21, 1861

http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/battles/bullrun.html It was the first real major conflict of the American Civil War. Union army had 28,000 men and the Confederates had 33,000 The casualties soared to 2,900 killed, wounded, captured, or missing for McDowell's army and 2,000 for Beauregard's.

Battle of Hampton Roads

Mar 8, 1862

http://www.civilwarhome.com/ironclad.htm when the first Confederate ironclad steamed down the Elizabeth River into Hampton Roads to attack the woodensided U.S. blockading fleet anchored there. Built on the hull of the U.S.S. Merrimac. After ramming and sinking the twenty-four-gun woodenhulled steam-sailing sloop Cumberland, the Merrimac headed for the fifty-gun frigate Congress. An awestruck Union officer watched the one side fight.

Battle of Shiloh

Apr 6, 1862

http://www.civilwarhome.com/shiloh.htm Confederate forces led by General Johnston attacked Union General Grant's army at Pittsburg Landing. The Union forces were not prepared but they still managed to hold their own until the arrival of General Buell's army and other reinforcements at Pittsburg Landing. Further, the Confederates lost their leader when General Johnston was killed by a stray bullet. Union won.

Battle of Bull Run 2nd

Aug 29, 1862

http://www.pekin.net/pekin108/edison/projects/bullrun2.html
The Second Battle of Bull Run was fought on August 29th and 30th. The Union started with 62,000 men and the South started with 50,000.

Battle of Antietam

Sep 16, 1862

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam.htmlOn September 16, 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and his Union Army of the Potomac confronted Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Sharpsburg, Maryland. At dawn on September 17, Maj. General Joseph Hooker’s Union corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee’s left flank that began the Battle of Antietam, and the single bloodiest day in American military history.

Emancipation Proclamation

Sep 22, 1862

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=34 A law that freed all the slaves, but it didnt work. The states outside of the North kept there slaves.

Battle of Fredrickburg

Dec 11, 1862

http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/va028.htm fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. the confederacy won

Battle of Chancellorsville

Apr 26, 1863

http://www.civilwarhome.com/chancell.htm was a major battle of the American Civil War. It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville. Confederate victory

Battle of Gettysburg

Jul 1, 1863

http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/battle.htm was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War. Union victory.

Siege of Vicksburg

Jul 3, 1863

http://www.civilwarhome.com/siegeofvicksburg.htm ) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Lead by Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

Siege of Atlanta

May 5, 1864

http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/graphics/battles/atlanta.html was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman invaded Georgia from the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tennessee, beginning in May 1864, opposed by the Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston. Union victory

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Mar 20, 1865

Lincoln assassination Lincoln was at a "Our American Cousin" play in his booth and he was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth.The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.

Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

Apr 7, 1865

http://www.civilwarhome.com/surrender.htm This is where General Robert E. Lee surrenderd to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

Ratification of the 13th Amendment

Dec 6, 1865

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/13th-amendment-ratified United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, passed by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865.