Timeline Of Events
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
FIRING ON FORT SUMPTER
- Fort Sumpter , a federal fort in Charleston Harbor , was fired upon by rebel forces to begin the war.
- (April 1861)
BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
- The first battle if the Civil War to take place on northern soil (it was in Sharpsburg, Maryland , September, 1862)
- The bloodiest one-day battle in American history (23,000 casualties)
- Union victory when Lee withdrew to Virginia
- Buitl Union confidence and led President Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation (announced in September , 1862 ; signed the order in January , 1863)
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
- The turning point of the Civil War
- Lee's invasion of nothern territory is repelled
- South is no longer capable of an offense into Union territory (July, 1863)
SIEGE OF VICKSBURG
- The North captured this stronghold to gain control of the Mississippi River and divided the Southern states
- (May-July, 1863)
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
- Changes the nature of the war from that of preserving the Union to freeing the slaves.
- The proclamation freed only the enslaved people in the rebelling territories.
- (Announced September , 1862; signed the order in January , 1863)
LEE'S SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE
- Brings the Civil War ro a close as Lee surrenders the Confederate forces of Virginia ti Grant.
- (April, 1865)
- Priority now became bringing the confederate states back into the union.
