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Fort sumter
April 12-14, 1861. confederate victory. begining of civil war. Confederate artillery opened fire on this fort in charleston harbor. Fort sumter surrendered 34 hours later. -
Battle of Bull run 1st
fisrt major battle of the civil war. a confederate victory. in prince william county, Virginia, near the city of Manassas. The Battle of Bull Run Lincoln the North that the Civil War would cost a lot. -
battle of hampton roads
march 8-9, 1862. indecisive both claimed win. first engagement of ironclads in history. The two ships fought each other to a standstill. -
battle of shiloh
april 6-7, 1862. union victory. Confederate (General Johnston) attacked Union General Grant's army at Pittsburg Landing. confedersate forces planned a surprise attack on the union who were along the tennessee river. -
Battle of Bull run 2
29-30, 1861. confederate victory. Pope's retreat to Centreville. Confederate general Thomas j. "stonewall" Jackson captured the union supply at Manassas Junction. Pope launched assaults against Jackson's position along an unfinished railroad. -
Battle of Antietam
north win. forced confederate to retreat back over the potomic river. near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam creek. first major battle in the Civil War to take place on Northern soil -
battle of fredricksburg
september 19-20, 1862. burnside vs. robert e lee. confederate victory. confederate reoccupies fredricksburg. on December 15, Burnside withdrew his army. -
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battle of fredricksburg
December 19-20, 1862. confederate victory. union brunside vs. robert e lee. Burnside sent his troops against the fatal barrier (a stone wall) on marye's hill, -
Emancipation proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 when the nation was in the third year of the civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle of Chancellorsville
President Abraham Lincoln gave ganeral Joseph Hooker command of the Army of the Potomac. fought in Spotsylvania County, Virginia -
battle of gettysburg
july 1-3, 1863. union victory. General Robert E. Lee, with 75,000 men invaded pennsylvania and the Union Army of the Potomac, about 90,000. battle concluded in gettysburg adress. -
radification of the 13th amendment
United StatesThe 13th amendment, abolished slavery in the United States. passed the senate on April 8, 1864, and the house of reps. on January 31, 1865. On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln approved. -
surrender at appomattox courthouse
[general lee](his was the final major engagement of the Civil War. General Lee surrendered to General Grant and the American Civil War came to an end.)Appomattox county, Virginia. Union: general Ulysses s. Grant. Confederate: general Robert e. Lee. The final action of the Civil War. Lee surrendered to Grant and the Civil War was over. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Death of Abraham Lincoln.The assassination was planned by well-known actor John Wilkes Booth (assasssinator) to keep remaining Confederate troops to continue fighting. Booth plotted with Lewis Powell and George Atzerodt to kill secretary of state William h. seward and vice president Andrew Johnson. Lincoln was shot while watching the play Our American Cousin at Ford theatre in Washington with his wife Mary Todd Lincoln. He died the next morning
