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Events of The Civil WarBy: Marqueon Thompson
Firing on Fort Sumter
April 12-13, 1861 Charleston, South Carolina Confederacy wins
Battle of Antietam
September 17, 1862 Sharpsburg, Maryland Union wins Bloodiest single day battle in American
History
Battle of Gettysburg
July 1-3, 1863 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Confederacy wins
Siege of Vicksburg
May 18 - July 4, 1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi Union wins
Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863 During the American Civil War Proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the
10 states then in rebellion
Assassination of Lincoln
April 14, 1865 John Wilkes assassinated Lincoln In Ford’s Theatre
Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House
April 1865 Northern Virginia
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