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Fort Sumter
Ended April 13, 1861. Located in Charlesten, South Carolina. Started the American Civil War. Union Major General Anderson and Confederate Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard. Confederate victory. -
Battle of Bull Run (1st)
Fought in Prince William Country, Virginia, near the ciry of Manassas. Also known as First battle of Manassasa. Union army Brigadier General Irvin McDowell and Confederate army Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard. -
Battle of Hampton Roads
Ended March 9. 1862. Often reffered to as the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack. The most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War. From the standpoint of the development of the navies. First meeting in combat of ironclad warships. Confederate General Buchonan and Union General John Marston. -
Battle of Shiloh
Ended April 7, 1862 in Southwest Tennessee. Also known as the Battl eof Pittsburg Landing. Union army Major General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard. Confederates were forced to retreat from the bloodiest battle in the United States history. -
Battle of Bull Run (2nd)
Also known as Second Manassas and ended August 30, 1862. Thomas Jackson got a nimckname, "Stonewall Jackson." Confederate Major General Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson and Union Major General John Pope. -
Battle of Antietaam
Also known as Battle of Sharpsburg it was fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antiem Creek. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. Confederate general, Robert E. Lee and Union army major General George B. McClellan. -
battle of Fredericksberg
Ended December we, 1862. Was fought 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 Major General Ambrose E. Burnside. On December 15, Burnside withdrew his army, ending another failed Union campain in the Eastern Theater. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Issued by Abraham Lincoln, as the nation approached its third year of the bloody Civil War. Proclamation declared that "all person held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and hence forward shall be free." Limited in many ways, and did not end slavery. In 1936 transferred to the National Archives of the United States. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Ended May 6, 1863. The principle engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign. Union Major General Joseph Hooker. Confederate General Robert E. Lee. THe second bloodiest battle (day, May 3) of the Civil War. -
Siege of Vicksburg
Ended July 4, 1863. Location was Warren County, Mississippi. Final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederat Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Ended July 3, 1863 in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualtied in the American Civil War. The war's turning point. Union Major General George Gordon Meade and Confedertate General Robert E. Lee. -
Siege of Atlanta
Fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta. Union Major General William T. Sherman invaded Georgia from Chattanooga, Tennessee, in May 1864, against Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston. Union victory. Ended September 2, 1864. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Location was Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. Final engagement. Confederate General Robert E. Lee's A surrendered to the Union, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. One of the last battles of the Civil War. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
As the Civil War was drawing to a close, Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth. On April 15, 1865 at 7:22 am Abraham Lincoln died. -
Ratification of the 13th Amendment
Officially obolished (and continues to oblish) slavery in the U.S. unless a punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and passed by the House on January 31, 1865.
