-
Period: to
Civil War timeline
-
Lincoln becoms presadent
Abraham Lincoln wins a four-way race for President of the United States.
He is the whole reason the civil war started -
Fort Sumter
Major Robert Anderson surrenders Fort Sumter to Confederate forces after two days of bombardment.
this gave the confederate army a base and they won a battle.
Made the union loose confidense -
Lincoln blocades the south
The south was blocaded from the rest of the country by soldiers and ships to try to weaken the economy of the south and by that the north could make them surrender.
Made getting supplies vertualy imposible -
First battle of Bull Run
The union Army is defeated at Bull Run. Confederate General. Thomas J. Jackson earns name of “Stonewall”. President Lincoln realizes that this will be a long war. This battle kicks off the Civil War. -
Monitor vs. Virginia
The Confederate ironclad USS Merrimack battles the Union ironclad USS Virginia in Chesapeake Bay. this changed the water warfare from wooden ships to iron ships forever -
Battle of shiloh
April 6th- April 9th 1862
Grant and his crew were surprized in the town of shiloh tennessee and over 23,000 casualties slowing down both army forces and causing the army to need to bring in more -
7 Days Campaign
June 25- july 1, 1862
Lee’s forces attacked the Union at Mechanicsville. The union won but McClellan ordered a retreat to Gains’ Mill. Confederate forced broke union lines the next day. Lee's sucess prolonged the war. -
Antietam
The blodiest day in american history over 26,000 men were killed
the battle stops Lee's invation on maryland and he retreats back to virginia -
Emancipation Proclamation
declared by presadent Lincoln freeing all slaves
did not free slaves right away
Made confederates mad -
2nd Bull Run
The Second Battle of Bull Run is a victory for Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. Union General John Pope is blamed for the loss and is relieved of his duties after the battle. -
Emancipation proclamation
Abe lincoln ordered the release of all slaves and it angered the southern plantation owners and gave the union more soldiers -
Chancellorsville
May 1, 1863 - May 4, 1863
Lee drives his troops into a bigger stronger enemy and defeats them giving them hope and confidence to keep fightiing -
Gettysburg
July 1-3 1863 the tide turns and the confederates are defeated. It began as a skirmish but by its end involved 160,000 Americans whitch set back both sides of the war and crushed the sperits of both sides -
Siege of Vicksburg
Grant takes the town of Vicksberg thus controlling the river thus ncutting the confederacy in two making it hard to set a full atack on a city or have all of the confederate army meet to gather stratagee -
Gettysburg adress
Presadent lincoln gave the speech at the national cemetary at the battlefield of gettysberg and said that this is a new birth of american freedom and all people wil be treated the same this gave the union and slaves hope and determination -
Gettysburg adress continued
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It -
Battle of Chattanooga
Chattanooga was a major railway jungtion Bagg in comand of the confederates marched up to grant and the union and a battle broke out and Bagg was forced to retreat thus having the union march straight from georgia to the sea sepperating the confederacy again making it impoasible to unite confederate troops -
Ulysses S. Grant takes over the Union Army
Presadent lincoln appoints Ulysses s grant as comander of the Union army and gives the union a new stratagee and view on the war -
Sherman burns Atlanta
Union General Sherman captures Atlanta and burns it to the ground Atlanta was a major confederate city so it was a big blow -
Lincoln re election
Abraham lincoln is re elected for a second term and that made the confederates and southerners very mad -
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Sherman begins his famous March to the Sea, making a path of distruction 300 miles long and 60 miles wide through Georgia. "All war is hell," he comments. destroying confederate cities crushing confederate sperits -
Savannah Captured
savannah is captured ending the march to sea and sherman gives it to lincoln as christmas presant -
Thirteenth Amendment passed
The United States Congress aproves the thirteenth amendment which abolishes slavery giving the union more troops -
Union Army moves in and occupies Richmond, VA
The union takes over richmond and is almost leveled by shels and fireagain weakening confederate ports and cities -
Lee Surrenders
Lee surrenders to Grant in a farmhouse in the town of Appomattox Court House The war is over. -
Lincoln shot and killed
Abe was shot in the head by john wilks booth angering and saddening the north and giving america a huge sorrow
