Timeline of The US Civil War |
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12/20/1860 - The South Secedes |
2/1/1861 - The South Seizes Federal Forts |
3/4/1861 - Lincoln's Inauguration |
3/11/1861 - The South Creates a Government |
4/12/1861 - Attack on Fort Sumter |
4/17/1861 - Four More States Join the Confederacy |
7/21/1861 - First Battle of Bull Run |
7/27/1861 - Northern Blockade of the South |
7/31/1861 - General McDowell Is Replaced |
1/27/1862 - Lincoln Issues War Order |
3/8/1862 - McClellan Loses Command |
3/8/1862 - Battle of Monitor and Merrimack |
3/23/1862 - Stonewall Jackson Defeats Union Forces |
3/27/1862 - The Peninsular Campaign |
4/6/1862 - The Battle of Shiloh |
5/31/1862 - The Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) |
6/26/1862 - The Seven Days' Battles |
7/1/1862 - Pope's Campaign |
7/11/1862 - Halleck Named Chief of Union Army |
9/17/1862 - Battle of Antietam |
12/11/1862 - Battle of Fredericksburg |
1/1/1863 - Emancipation Proclamation |
3/3/1863 - The First National Conscription Act |
4/30/1863 - The Battle of Chancellorsville |
5/1/1863 - The Vicksburg Campaign |
6/12/1863 - The Gettysburg Campaign |
9/19/1863 - The Battle of Chickamauga |
5/1/1864 - Grant's Wilderness Campaign |
6/13/1864 - Confederate Troops Approach Washington, D.C |
8/1/1864 - General William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign |
11/8/1864 - Abraham Lincoln Is Re-Elected |
11/15/1864 - General William T. Sherman's March to the Sea |
1/3/1865 - Sherman's March through Carolina |
1/24/1865 - The Fall of the Confederacy |
3/25/1865 - Fallen Richmond |
4/7/1865 - Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse |
4/14/1865 - The Assassination of President Lincoln |
4/26/1865 - Final Surrenders among Remaining Confederate Troops |