Timeline of the Civil War

By DrorCohen

  • Vicksburg

    Vicksburg
    With the loss of Pemberton's army and a Union victory at Port Hudson five days later, the Union controlled the entire Mississippi River, and the Confederacy was split in half. This happened in February 15, 1839

  • Fredericksburg

    Fredericksburg
    Fredericksburg was founded in 1846 and named after Prince Frederick of Prussia. One nickname they gave that town was Fritztown.

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by an author called Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published in 1852. The novel wad manly toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S.A.

  • Civil War Begins

    Civil War Begins
    Forces under P.G.T. Beauregard bombard Major Robert Anderson and his Union soldiers at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, were there where The Civil War officially began. This happened on Apr 12, 1861.

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    Fort Sumter is where the first shots were fired in the Civil war. This was a big change in history because that’s when the war first started. Now there is a museum named after the beginning of the world. This happened in April 12, 1861.

  • Union Surrender at Ft. Sumter

    Union Surrender at Ft. Sumter
    Major Robert Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter to Confederate forces. This happened on Apr 17, 1861

  • Lincoln Requests Army

    Lincoln Requests Army
    Lincoln addresses Congress and requests authorizes a call for 500,000 men. It was clear that the war was now taken seriously. This happened on July 21, 1861

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    First Battle of Bull Run
    The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First Manassas was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas.

  • Battle of the Ironclads

    Battle of the Ironclads
    On March 8 1862, the Virginia sunk two Union ships and ran one aground off Hampton Roads. On March 9, 1862, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia fought to a draw off Hampton Roads.

  • Shiloh

    Shiloh
    The Battle of Shiloh was one of the first battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought between April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.

  • Antietam

    Antietam
    The Battle of Antietam occurred on September 17, 1862. It still remains the deadliest one-day battle in all of American military history.

  • Chancellorsville

    Chancellorsville
    The Battle of Chancellorsville was a big battle of the American Civil War. It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville.

  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg
    The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, was supposed to be the turning point of the civil war. That’s because Robert E. Lee's plan was to invade the North. This was a supposed to be a big step to the war, but later found out that, the plan went out to fail.

  • Appomattox (not the battle)

    Appomattox (not the battle)
    This happened in April 9, 1865. General Robert E. Lee surrendered with his troops to the south because he didn’t want to create any more destruction and risk anybody's life. This was a big change to the final outcome of how the war ended.

  • Lincoln assassination

    Lincoln assassination
    Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by a stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play “Our American Cousin” at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.