Events of the Civil War

By: VaShon Williams2nd Period

Firing on Fort Sumter

• April 12, 1861• Near Charleston, South Carolina• Confederate Won

Battle of Antietam

• September 17, 1862• Near Sharpsburg, Maryland• Union Won• Bloodiest Single Day in War

Emancipation Proclamation

• Was signed on January 1, 1863 • Addressed on November 19, 1863• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania• It was a plan that issued that anyAfrican American slave in theConfederacy had to be let free!

Battle of Gettysburg

• June 1, 1863• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania • Union Won • Turning Point

Siege of Vicksburg

• May 18, 1863• Vicksburg, Mississippi• Union Won• Another turning point

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House

• April 9, 1965• Small Virginia village• UNION WON!

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• April 14, 1865• Theater in Washington, D.C• An actor from the play John Wilkes Booth shot

President Lincoln and fled. But got captured on April 26 , and killed.