1. Civil War Battles and Events

2. 1. Fort Sumter April 12, 1861 Major Anderson First Shots Fired
Confederates blocked shipments
Lincoln tried to send supplies
Confederates opened fire
Battle lasted two days
Nobody Died!
Lincoln Called for Volunteers

3. 2. 1st Battle of Bull Run July 21, 1861 North: Irvin McDowell
South: P.G.T. Beauregard :Stonewall Jackson
First Battle
Both inexperience armies
Picnic Battle
Rebels rallied under Jackson
Union retreated into D.C.
Realized it will be a long bloody war
George McClellan put in charge of Union Army

4. 3. Battle of Shiloh April 6, 1862 North: U.S. Grant
South: Albert Johnston/PGT Beauregard
First major bloodshed!
Boarder of Miss. And Tenn.
Confederate surprise attack
2 days 23,000 killed or wounded
Union won and took large amount of the Miss. River in the next month.

5. 4. Battle of Antietam Sept. 17, 1862 North: George McClellan
South: Robert E. Lee
Lee tried to attack Washington D.C.
Split his army in two
McClellan found battle plans, but delayed
Bloodiest single day of the war.
23,000 killed or wounded
Union won and Lee retreated to Virginia

6. 5. Battle of Fredericksburg
Dec. 13, 1862
North: Ambrose Burnside
South: Robert E. Lee
Inspired Lee to attack North.
Burnside attacks Lee in Virginia
Lee decided to meet them outside of Fredericksburg
Confederates easily win and Burnside is replaced by Joseph Hooker

7. Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln ordered a decree freeing all slaves in rebel territory.
January 1, 1863
Didn’t free any slaves at the time, but it meant slavery would be over if the Union won.

8. 6. Battle of Chancellorsville
May 1863
North: Joseph Hooker
South: Robert E. Lee :Stonewall Jackson
Both sides split forces
Confederates surrounded the Union army and attacked
Hooker withdrew, but Jackson was shot by own men.
Jackson died a week later

9. Weak Union Generals In one year Lincoln went through three generals.
McClellan, Burnside and Hooker
George Meade was next in line

10. 7. Battle of Gettysburg July 1-4, 1863 North: George Meade
South: Robert E. Lee
Turning Point of the War
Accidental meeting between Union Cavalry and Confederates looking for supplies
Lead to turning point of the war
Nearly 50,000 casualties in three days
Cemetery Ridge, Round Top, Little Round Top
Pickett’s Charge!

12. 8. Vicksburg Siege July 4, 1863 North: U.S. Grant
Grant took control of important Port city on Mississippi.
47 days of bombing
Split confederacy in two in the coming weeks.

13. Gettysburg Address Nov. 19, 1863
Dedication of National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
Lincoln’s most famous political speech
Lasted only 2 minutes.
“Four Score and Seven Years Ago…”

14. 9. Wilderness Campaign May 5, 1864 North: U.S. Grant
South: Robert E. Lee
First part of Union plan to end the war.
Grant attacked Lee and wouldn’t let him get away.
Six week long battle
50,000 troops died in 30 days at one point.
Grant called a “butcher” in North

15. 10. Sherman’s March to the Sea
North: William Tecumseh Sherman
2nd part of plan to end the war
Take the war to the people
Sherman marched to Atlanta and then to the coast
Destroyed everything in his path and lived off the land
Turned N. through Carolinas
Break Southern will to fight
Freedom March for Slaves

16. 11. Fall of Richmond April, 1865 U.S. Grant vs Lee
Battled outside Richmond at Petersburg for months.
Lee finally withdrew and Union troops marched into already burning Richmond.
Davis and government had fled already.
Union troops try to put out the fire.
Union finally took the Capital.

17. 12. Surrender at Appomattox
North: U.S. Grant
South: Robert E. Lee
April 9, 1865
Formal surrender of Confederate Army
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Grant was very lenient with Lee and his troops
Tried to set peaceful precedent to end war