CIVIL WAR1861 - 1865

Fort Sumpter – Charleston SCFirst Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas Junction) VaStonewall JacksonGeorge McClellanAnaconda Plan

1862Forts Henry and DonaldsonUS GrantMonitor and MerrimacNew OrleansShilohThe DraftPeninsular CampaignRobert E LeeJefferson DavisAntietamEmancipation Proclamation

1863Black Soldiers (Glory) Buffalo SoldiersChancellorsville, FredericksburgBurnside, Pope, Hooker, Meade, GrantGettysburgVicksburg and the Mississippi

1864Cold HarborElection of 1864William Tecumseh ShermanBattle of AtlantaSherman’s March to the Sea

1865Sherman turns north13th AmendmentLee surrenders after the fall of RichmondAppomattox CourthouseLast battle?Last Confederate General to Surrender?Lincoln Assassinated – Ford’s Theater, John

Wilkes BoothAndrew Johnson is President618,000 dead, 412,000 wounded

approximatelyReconstruction Begins