Civil War Timeline

South Carolina, Confederate victory

-General-in-Chief Winfield Scott’s plan to subdue the seceding southern states
-Blockade of southern ports
-“Anaconda smothering its victim”

Virginia, Union gunboats fight inconclusive battle w/ Confederate artillery

West Virginia, Union Victory

Union victory

Confederate victory

Union victory

West Virginia, Union Victory

Manassas Junction, Virginia.
-Generals Irvin McDowell, Joseph E. Johnston, P.G.T. Beauregard
-First major land battle of the Civil War

-Peninsula between the York/James Rivers toward Richmond, Virginia
-Generals/Leaders George B. McClellan, John B. Magruder, Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee
-Turning movement against Confederates to capture their capital, Richmond, Virginia

-Sewell’s Point, near Hampton Roads, Virginia
-Generals/Leaders Louis M. Goldsborough, John Marston, Franklin Buchanan, Catesby ap Roger Jones
-Most important naval battle of Civil War

-Hardin County, Tennessee.
-Generals/Leaders Ulysses S. Grant, Don Carlos Buell, Albert Sidney Johnston, P.G.T. Beauregard
-Confederates launched attack on Union, but lost on second day

-Prince William County, Virginia.
-Generals John Pope, Robert E. Lee
-Largest mass assault of the Civil War

Sharpsburg, New England. Union victory

-Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, Virginia.
-Generals Ambrose E. Burnside and Robert E. Lee
-Considered one of the most one-sided battles of the Civil War. -Union deaths were two times higher than Confederate side.

-Warren County, Mississippi
-Generals Ulysses S. Grant, John C.Pemberton
-Turning point in war
-Cut off communication with Trans-Mississippi Confederates

-Adams County, Pennsylvania
-Generals/Leaders George G. Meade, John F. Reynolds, Robert E. Lee
-Largest number of casulties in Civil War

-From Atlanta, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia
-Major General William Tecumseh Sherman
-Broke the South’s mental and physical desire to wage war by destroying all things Confederate/South in their wake

-Richmond/ Petersburg Virginia
-Generals/Leaders Ulysses S. Grant, George G. Meade, Edward Ord, Philip Sheridan, Robert E. Lee
-End of the Civil War
-Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House