Civil War Events

By:Shakayla ,Shaquariya & Andrea

Firing on Fort Sumter

The aides then left the fort and proceeded to the nearby Fort Johnson. There, Chestnut ordered the fort to open fire on Fort Sumter. On Friday, April 12, 1861.

Battle of Antietam

• The Battle of Antietam fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major.

Battle Getty burgs

• The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties .

Siege of Vicksburg

• The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers.

Emancipation Proclamation

• The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War .

Assassination of Lincoln

• April 15, 1865, he died. He was fifty-six years old. Mary Lincoln was not present at the time of his death.

• Abraham Lincoln Papers , The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, dropped the pistol and waved a dagger. Rat bone lunged at him, and though slashed in the arm.

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House

• Surrender. Federal soldiers at the courthouse, April 1865. Dressed in an immaculate uniform, Lee waited for Grant to arrive.

• On Palm Sunday, 1865, Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia signaled the end of the Southern States attempt to create a separate nation.