Civil War Project
John molyneux & Trinity forney
Timeline
Fort Sumter april, 12, 1861
#1 On April 10, 1861, Brig. Gen. Beauregard, in command of the provisional Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina, demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
#2 Garrison commander Anderson refused. On April 12, Confederate batteries opened fire on the fort, which was unable to reply effectively.
#3 At 2:30 pm, April 13, Major Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter, evacuating the garrison on the following day.
#4 The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War.
Battle of Anteitam sept, 17, 1862
Battle of Vicksburg May, 18 - July, 4, 1863
Battle of Gettysburg july, 1-3, 1863
Appomattox Courthouse april, 9, 1865
Assassination of Lincoln april, 15, 1863
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Dred Scott vs. Stanford
Abraham Lincoln
Used tactics such as terminating rights and imprisioning many people
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Union general
His 1862 triumphs at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in western Tennessee won him the nickname “Unconditional Surrender” Grant, and placed him before the public eye.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was a Mexican War hero, U.S. senator from Mississippi, U.S. secretary of war and president of the Confederate States of America for the duration of the American Civil War (1861-1865).
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
1861 - 1865
Civil War
America’s bloodiest clash, the sectional conflct of the Civil War (1861-65) pitted the Union against the Confederate States of America and resulted in the death of more than 620,000, with millions more injured.