Civil War

By carolina.ruiz

  • Abraham Lincoln elected president

    Abraham elected the 16th president of the US

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    The first battle of the Civil War, Confederates took the win.

  • Bull Run 1

    Bull Run 1
    This confederate victory proved to the union that this would be a long and deadly war.

  • Shiloh

    Shiloh
    The bloody Battle of Shiloh was a huge victory for Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater. As a result of the battle, western Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and a section of the Mississippi River fell into Union hands.

  • Bull Run ll

    Bull Run ll
    The Second Battle of Bull Run was three times as violent as the First Battle of Bull Run, but the result was the same – a Confederate victory.

  • Antietam

    Antietam
    The Battle of Antietam represented the worst one-day battle of the entire Civil War. Although it was considered a draw, the Confederate army was forced back into Virginia.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    Declaring that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg
    Lee’s movements north into Pennsylvania set the stage for the largest battle ever fought in the Western Hemisphere.