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Fort Sumter
April 12 - 14 1861
Charleston County, South Carolina
Maj. Robert Anderson [US]; Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard [CS]
Confederate victory -
1st Battle of Bull Run
Confedererate victory
Led to army reorganization
Leaders; North McDowell - South Beauregard
Virgina -
Battle of Hampton Roads
March 8–9, 1862
Union: Maj. Gen. John E. Wool
Confederate: Maj. Gen. Benjamin Huger
The Battle of Hampton Roads is the most famous naval encounter of the American Civil War, and one of the most significant battles in the history of naval warfare. This despite the most important fighting only involving one ship on each side!
State: Washington -
Battle of Shiloh
April 6th - April 7th 1862
Union
Johnston killed
Union control of Tennessee river
Leaders: North Grant - South Johnston
Tennessee -
2nd Bull Run
August 19 - August 30 1862
Confederat win
And they regain control most of virginia
Leaders: North Pope - South Jackson
Virginia -
Battle of Antietam
Military draw
Seen as political victory for union,
led to Emancipation Proclamation
Leaders: North McClellan - South Lee
Maryland -
Battle of Fredricksburg
Confederate win
Stops final union advance of 1862
Leaders: North Burnside - South Lee
Virgina -
Emancipation Proclamation
It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control.
Athough the Emancipation Proclamation didnt end slavery it captured the hearts of americans and transformed them after the war. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
May 2nd - May 4th
Confederate won
Lee soundly beat an army that outnumbered him 2;1 but Jaskson was killed
Leaders; North Hooker - South Lee
Virgina -
Seige of Vicksburg
May 18th- July 4 1863
Union gave them conrol of the Mississippi River
Goal in the west accomplished
Leaders: North Grant- South Pemberton
State Mississippi -
Battle of Gettysburg
July 1- July 3 1863
Union won
Over 43,000 casualties the south would bever invade the north again
Leaders: North Meade- South Lee
Pennsylvania -
Siege of Alanta
Between July 16th and September 12 1864.
Union Captured "heart of the south" launched the "march to the sea"
Leaders: North Sherman- Shouth Hood
State: Georgia -
Ratification of the 13th Amendment
The 13th amendment was and still is used for slavery. It was the first of the Reconstruction Amendments.President Lincoln was concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in the ten Confederate states still in rebellion in 1863, would be seen as a temporary war measure, since it was based on his war powers and did not abolish slavery in the border states. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The assassination was planned and carried out by well-known actor John Wilkes Booth as part of a larger conspiracy intended to rally the remaining Confederate troops to continue fighting.
Lincoln was shot while watching the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. He died the next morning. The rest of the plot failed. Powell only managed to wound Seward, while Atzerodt, Johnson's would-be assassin, lost his nerve and fled. -
Surrender at appomattox Courthouse
Confederats:Gen. R. E. Lee,
Union: U.S. Grant
R. E. Lee surrenders so the war is over and the union wins
