Emily and Bansi's Civil War Timeline

The First Battle of Bull Run

Jul 21, 1861

Nothern troops gathered in Washinton D.C. to seize Manassas, Virginia. However, the Southern troops defeated the Union.

The Battle of Shilloh

Feb 23, 1862

The Battle of Shiloh was the first batlle after the Union dispersed troops into the west. Confederate forces attacked near Shiloh, resulting in thousand of casualities between both armies.

The Battle of Chancellorville

Apr 30, 1862

The South won this battle as part of the rising hope for the South. Stonewell Jackson was killed by his own men by accident.

The Peninsular Campaign

Jun 25, 1862

The Union landed in Yorktown to be met by the Confederates, led by General Robert E. Lee. The Confederates defeated the Northerners.

Bull Run Second Battle

Aug 25, 1862

McClellan replaced by Gen. Pope. Lee and Gen. Stonewall Jackson defeat Union troops again at Manassas and Pope is replaced by McClellan.

The Battle of Antietam

Sep 17, 1862

General Lee led the Confederacy to attack the Union. But then a Confederate messenger dropped a copy of the battle plans that was found by a Union soldier. When the Union found that the troops were divided, they attacked which ended in the battle being a draw.

Fredericksburg

Dec 11, 1862

General Burnside attacks Lee's fortified position and suffers 10,000 casualties for the Confederacy.

The Battle of Gettysburg

Jul 1, 1863

Confederate troops. almost accidentally, discovered Union weapons in Gettysburg Pennslyvania. The Confederates attacked but the Union won the war lasting three days. This battle crushed General Lee's hopes of carrying the fight further up North.

Vicksburg

Jul 4, 1863

After a long siege, Vicksburg surrenders to Grant. All of the Missisippi River is now in Union control.

Petersburg

Jun 9, 1864

Grant focuses on important railroad junction and communication outside Richmond. Long siege of Petersburg begins with troops living in trenches which stretched for 50 miles

The Fall of Atlanta

Sep 2, 1864

General Sherman took command of the Union army during the fall of Atlanta.

Sherman's march to the sea

Dec 22, 1864

General Sherman made his army follow the "scorch earth policy" and burned down and tear up everything. Union forces drove out the Confederates out of Atlanta.

Surrender at Appomattox

Apr 2, 1865

Sherman continued his burning through North Carolina in hope of reaching Virginia. General Grant later accepted General Lee's surrender in the Appomattox Court House.