Civil War Timeline

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    The Civil War

    Timespan for the civil war
  • The Election of Abraham Lincoln

    The Election of Abraham Lincoln

    Location: Washington DC
    This is important because President Lincoln was the president who ended slavery.

  • The Confederacy of the Untied States is Formed

    Location: Deep south
    This is important because 7 states seceded from the Union, to form the Confederacy.

  • Fort Sumter

    Location: Charleston County
    Who Won: Confederate
    Length: 3 days
    This battle was important because this battle was the opening engagement of the American Civil War. Source

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    Location: Virginia
    Who Won: Confederate
    Length: 1 day
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  • Battle of Fort Henry

    Location: Stewart County and Henry County, Tenneesee and Calloway County, Kentucky.
    Who Won: Union
    Length: 1 day
    This battle is important because Union highways became availble for movement of troops and material.
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  • Battle of Fort Donelson

    Location: Stewart County
    Who Won: Union
    Length: 6 days
    This battle is important because this was a major victory for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
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  • Battle of Shiloh

    Location: Hardin County
    Who Won: Union
    Length: 2 days
    This battle is important because the victory of the Union gave Tenenessee to the north.
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  • Second Battle of Bull Run

    Location: Prince William County
    Who Won: Confederate
    Legth: 3 days
    This battle is important because this was the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign
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  • Battle of Antietam

    Location: Washington County
    Who Won: Union strategic
    Length: 3 days
    This battle is important because it was the bloodiest day in American history
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  • Battle of Fredericksburg

    Location: Soptsylvania County and Fredericksburg
    Who Won: Confederate
    Length: 5 days
    This battle is important because it involved the first major opposed river crossing in the nation's history.
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  • The Emancipation Proclamation is signed

    Location: Washington DC
    This is important because Abraham did in attempting to stitch together a nation in a bloody civil war.

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    Location: Spotsylvania County
    Who Won: Confederate
    Length: 1 Month
    This battle is important because it showed the genuis of the comander Lee
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  • Siege of Vicksburg

    Location: Warren County, Mississippi
    Who Won: Union
    Length: 2 Months
    This battle is important because the Confederate was effectivley spilt in half.
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  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Location: Adams county, Pennyslvania
    Who Won: Union
    Length: 3 days
    This battle is important it is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War
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  • Battle of Fort Wagner

    Location: Morris Island, South Carolina
    Who Won: Confederate
    Length: 1 day
    This battle is important because this was when free Afican American men began their assault on Fort Wagner
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  • Battle of Chattanooga

    Location: Tennessee
    Who Won: Union
    Length: 1 day
    This battle is important because it was the turning point of the war because it gave the Union the ability to move further south.
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  • Battle of Chickamauga

    Location: Georgia
    Who Won: Confederate
    Length: 3 days
    This battle is important because it was one of the worst defeats of the Civil War
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  • The Gettysburg Address

    Location: Pennsylvania
    This is important because it is the speech that President Lincoln gave on the site of one of the most bloodiest battles of the Civil War. In the speech he talked about the principles of human equality.

  • Battle of Spotsylvania

    Location: Virginia
    Who won: Inconclusive
    Length: 2 weeks, 14 days
    This battle is important because Grant decided to continue his overland campaign towards Richmond, but all of his battles resulted in casualties that gave him the nickname "Butcher Grant".
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  • Battle of Cold Harbor

    Location: Virginia
    Who Won: Confederate
    Length: about 1 Month
    This battle is important because it was the last Confederate victory in defense of their capitol
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  • The Re-election of Abraham Lincoln

    The Re-election of Abraham Lincoln

    Location: Washington DC
    This is important because President Linocln was elected again to a second term.

  • Sherman's March to the Sea

    Location: Atlanta
    Who Won: Union
    Length: about 2 months
    This battle is important because his intentions were to draw men away from Virginia
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  • Battle of Sailor's Creek

    Location: Georgia
    Who won: Union
    Length: 1 day
    This battle is important because after this battle they knew it would soon be all over
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  • The Surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse

    Location: Virginia
    This is important because when Confederate General Robert E Lee surrendered his troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant it ended the American Civil War.
  • The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Location: Ford's Theatre, Washington DC
    This is important because Abraham Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth.