Civil War Timeline
Firing on Fort Sumter
• Location: – Charleston, South Carolina
• Description: – 1st shots fired of the Civil War
• Important people: – U-Beauregard – C-Robert Anderson
• Outcome: – Union took over Fort Sumter
Battle of Antietam
• Location:– Sharpsburg, Maryland
• Description:– First battle to take place on Union
soil– Bloodiest battle in the Civil War
• Important people:– U-George McClellan– C-Robert E Lee
• Outcome:– Union drove Confederate to
Virginia
Battle of Gettysburg
• Location:– Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• Description:– Largest battle of the Civil War– Gettysburg Address
• Important people:– U-George Meade, John Reynolds– C- Robert E Lee
• Outcome:– North victory – Turning point of the Civil War
Siege of Vicksburg
• Location:– Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Description:– Last major battle of the Civil War– Divided the Confederate Army
• Important people:– U- Ulysses S Grant– C-John Pemberton
• Outcome:– North victory
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
• Location:– Washington, DC
• Description:– Freed slaves in southern
states– Was not a law yet
• Important people:– Abraham Lincoln
• Outcome:– Slaves were freed
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Location:– Washington, DC
• Description:– President Lincoln was
assassinated– Ford Theatre
• Important people:– John Wilkes Booth
• Outcome:– Tried to revive the Confederate
cause
Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox
• Location:– Appomattox, Virginia
• Description:– South surrendered
• Important people:– U-Ulysses S Grant– C-Robert E Lee
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