• 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.