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Civil War Timeline

By dmyaalvarez

  • Election of Abraham Lincoln

    Election of Abraham Lincoln
    In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell.

  • Battle of Fort Sunter

    Battle of Fort Sunter
    Federal outpast in Charleston south Carolina that was attacked by confederate troops, beginning the civil war.

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    First Battle of Bull Run
    This Battle was the 1st major Battle of Civil War and resulted in confederate victory.

  • Second Battle of Bull Run

    Second Battle of Bull Run
    It was the second battle fought there, although it was a much larger battle than the first one. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, led by General Robert E. Lee, defeated the Union's Major General John Pope and his Army of Virginia.

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam
    Fought on September 17,1862 was the blood rest single day in American History 23,000 consultations

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    As the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.

  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address
    Lincoln delivered speech at the end of ceremonies dedicating the battle acid dementry at gettysburg pennylvania.

  • Surrender of Confederate Forces

    Surrender of Confederate Forces
    On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered his beleaguered Confederate forces to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army. Lee's army, after the fall of Richmond and Petersburg, had been attempting to escape to the west so that he could link up with another confederate army.

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
    On April 14, 1865, 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. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg
    Union Victory which stopped confederate General Robert E-Lee 2nd invasion of north, more than 150,000 men fell as casualties.