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CIVIL WAR TIMELINE
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FORT SUMTER ATTACKED
4:30 AM confederates opened fire with 50 cannons, in South Carolina. The Civil War began. -
FIRST BULL RUN
The Union Army under Gen. Irvin McDowell suffers after the Bull Run 25 miles southwest of Washington. -
SHILOH
Confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River resulted in 3,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates. -
SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN
5,000 Federals under Gen. John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Gen. James Longstreet at the second battle of Bull Run in Northern Virginia. -
ANTIETAM
The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces. -
FREDERICKSBURG
Potomac army under Gen. Burnside suffered a costly defeat at Fredericksburg in Virginia with a loss of 12,653 men after 14 assaults on well entrenched Rebels on Marye's Heights. -
CHANCELLORSVILLE
The Union Army under Gen. Hooker is defeated by Lee's smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia as a result of Lee's brilliant and daring idea. -
GETTYSBURG
The war turns against the South as the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. -
CHICKAMAUGA
Confederate victory by Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga leaves Gen. William S. Rosecrans' Union Army of the Cumberland trapped in Chattanooga, Tennessee under Confederate. -
CHATTANOOGA
The siege Chattanooga ends as Union forces under Grant defeat the siege army of Gen. Braxton Bragg. During the battle, one of the most dramatic moments of the war occurs. -
COLD HARBOR
A costly mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties during an offensive against fortified Rebels at Cold Harbor in Virginia. -
MARCH TO THE SEA
After destroying Atlanta's warehouses and railroad facilities, Sherman, with 62,000 men begins a March to the Sea. -
LEE SURRENDERS
Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Court House in Virginia.
