Civil War events and battles

What was the conflict that started the Civil War?

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Bull Run

• Battle at Gettysburg

• Fort Sumter

First attempt the Union would make to take out the capital of the Confederacy.

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Emancipation Proclamation

Counterattack by the Confederacy on the Union, known as the Bloodiest Battle of the War.

• Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Antietam

• Sherman's march to the sea

Confederacy's second attempt at attacking Northern soil, this battle lasted 3 days and ended with Pickett's Charge.

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Gettysburg Address

This was a famous speech given by President Lincoln to honor fallen soldiers and address the Nation.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• 54th Massachusetts

The last Confederacy Fort was located on the Louisiana Mississippi River, taking this fort helped the Union split the Confederacy

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of ekhjksh

An Executive order that urged ALL enslaved people of a rebel nation to come fight for the union, and also changed the goals of the war to ending slavery.

• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 54th Massachusetts

• Gettysburg Address

First ALL black regiment led by a white officer. They were underpaid and rarely given a gun.

• 54th Massachusetts

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Gettysburg Address

Richard Sherman was given order to march to Tennessee and destroy anything in his path ONLY take supplies the Union can use.

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Sherman's March to the Sea

This was the OFFICIAL end to the Civil War. Robert E. Lee would meet with Ulysses S. Grant and allow his soldiers to keep their weapons and horses.

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Appomattox Court House

• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• Battle of Vickdburg