Civil war Timeline

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    First Battle of Bull Run
    The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas, was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C.
  • Lincoln as President

    Lincoln as President
    The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States.
  • Attack on fort Sumter

    Attack on fort Sumter
    The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
  • Battle of Ironclads

    Battle of Ironclads
    The first battle where the Ironclad was issued.
  • Capture of New Orleans

    Union captures New Orleans and takes control of the Miss. River
  • The Battle of Antietam

    Battle where Union won because of lost confederate battle plans found by the Union.
  • Debate Over Slavery

    Debate Over Slavery
    The decision whether to not to end slavery do to the moral injustice over it and the civil war.
  • The Battle of Fredricksburg

    The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    Order that slaves are free after they are set free by the Union.
  • Spying

    Women played as spies to contribute to a big part of the Civil War. Dorothea Dix was the most well known.
  • Draft Wars

    An issue in the North and South about enlisting in to the military.
  • Civil war ends

    The civil war ends with the Union as the victors