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

Assignment

• Look up the date for the events • Write down the event, date, and a short

summary describing the event