Top ten Civil War events by Olisia Williams

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  • Attack on Fort sumter

    Attack on Fort sumter
    Was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the US Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor.

  • Battle of Bull Run

    Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of HamptonRoads

    Battle of HamptonRoads

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam

  • emancipation proclamation

    emancipation proclamation

  • Seige Of VickBurg

    Seige Of VickBurg
    Was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

  • Battle of GettysBurg

    Battle of GettysBurg
    Was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War

  • Ratification of 13th Amendment

    Ratification of 13th Amendment
    The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864,

  • Assassination Of Lincoln

    Assassination Of Lincoln
    John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.

  • Surrender at appomattox Court House

    Surrender at appomattox Court House
    Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807-70) surrendered his approximately 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) in the front parlor of Wilmer McLean’s home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War (1861-65).