Civil War timeline

By rickykinford

  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

  • Period: to

    Civil war

  • Rest of Deep South secedes: Confederacy is founded

    Rest of Deep South secedes: Confederacy is founded

  • Fort Sumter is fired up and surrenders to Confederate forces

    Fort Sumter is fired up and surrenders to Confederate forces

  • Upper South secedes

  • Grant capture forts Henry and Donelson

    Grant capture forts Henry and Donelson

  • McClellan leads unsuccessful campaign on the peninsula southeast of Richmond

  • Farragut captures New Orleans for the Union

  • South wins second Battle of Bull Run

    South wins second Battle of Bull Run

  • McClellan stops Lee at battle of Antietam

    McClellan stops Lee at battle of Antietam

  • Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

    Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

  • lee defeats Union army at Fredricksburg

    lee defeats Union army at Fredricksburg

  • Lincoln issues final Emancipation Proclamation

    Lincoln issues final Emancipation Proclamation

  • Lee is victorious at Chancellorsville

    Lee is victorious at Chancellorsville

  • North gains major victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg

    North gains major victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg

  • Atlanta falls to Sherman

    Atlanta falls to Sherman

  • Lincoln is re-elected

    Lincoln is re-elected

  • Sherman marches through Georgia

    Sherman marches through Georgia

  • Congress passes Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery

    Congress passes Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery

  • Lee surrenders at Appomattox

    Lee surrenders at Appomattox

  • Lincoln assasinated by John Wilkes Booth

    Lincoln assasinated by John Wilkes Booth