Civil War Timeline

By estojka

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    Union leader: Anderson
    Confederate leader: Jefferson Davis
    Who won? Confederates
    Importance: Anderson surrendered

  • 1st Battle of Bull Run

    1st Battle of Bull Run
    Union leader: McClellan

    Confederate leader: Thomas Jackson
    Who won? Confederates
    Importance: this was the first major land battle of the armies that took place in Virginia

  • Battle of Shiloh

    Battle of Shiloh
    Union leader: Grant
    Confederate leader: Johnston
    Who won? Union
    Importance: The Confderates planned a surprise attack on the North

  • Fall of New Orleans

    Fall of New Orleans
    Union leader: Farragut

    Who won? Union
    Importance: The Union won as they battled the Confederate forts on the Mississippi River

  • Antietam

    Antietam
    Union leader: McClellan

    Confederate leader: Lee & Jackson
    Who won? Union
    Importance: The Union won but failed to destroy the Confederate army

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

    Battle of Fredericksburg
    Union leader: General Burnside
    Confederacy leader: General Lee
    Who won? Confederacy
    Importance: the South won again

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    Battle of Chancellorsville
    Union leader: General Hooker
    Confederate leader: General Lee & General Jackson
    Who won? Confederacy
    Importance: ruined the Union's plan of attacking Richmond

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg
    Union leader: General Meade
    Confederate leader: General Lee & General Pickett
    Who won? Union
    Importance: ended the Confederate hope of help from Britain & France & the turning point of the war

  • Siege of Vicksburg

    Siege of Vicksburg
    Union leader: General Ulysses S. Grant
    Confederate leader: everyone
    who won? Union
    Importance: Confederacy split in half and lost control over the Mississippi River in the South

  • Wilderness Campaign

    Wilderness Campaign
    who won? Confederacy
    Union leader: Grant
    Importance: started the 6 bloodiest weeks of the war

  • Farragut at Mobile Bay

    Farragut at Mobile Bay
    Union leader: David Farragut
    who won? Union
    Importance: Union took the last Southern port east of the Mississippi

  • Sherman's March to the Sea

    Sherman's March to the Sea
    Importance: cities and farmlands were destroyed & 1,000's of enslaved people were free

  • Fall of Richmond/Surrender at Appomattox

    Fall of Richmond/Surrender at Appomattox
    Union leader: Grant
    Confederate leader: General Lee
    who won? Union
    Importance: Union won yet the Rebels kept their weapons, horses and Grant fed Lee's troops