Time Line for Civil War


	Time Line

1619	Slaves sold in Virginia
1808	Importation of slaves outlawed
1820	Missouri Compromise
1852	Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
1854	Kansas-Nebraska Act
1857	Dred Scott Decision
1859	John Brown raids Harpers Ferry
1860	November – Lincoln elected December – South Carolina secedes
1861	January – Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana secede February – Texas secedes; Confederate States of America formed April 12 – Attack on Fort Sumter April – Virginia secedes May – Tennessee, Arkansas, and North Carolina secede July 21 – Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) August 10 – Battle at Wilson's Creek
1862	February 6 – Fort Henry falls February 16 – Fort Donelson surrenders March 7-8 – Battle of Pea Ridge March 9 – Battle of the Monitor and the Virginia March 17 – Peninsula Campaign begins March-June – Shenandoah Valley Campaign April 6-7 – Battle of Shiloh April 25 – New Orleans falls May 31-June 1 – Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) June 26-July 2 – The Seven Days Battles August 29-August 30 – Second Manassas (Second Bull Run) September 17 – Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) September 22 – Lincoln announces Emancipation Proclamation October 3-4 – Battle of Corinth October 8 – Battle of Perryville December 13 – Battle of Fredericksburg December 31-January 2, 1863 – Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro)
1863	May 1-6 – Battle of Chancellorsville May 18 – Siege of Vicksburg begins July 1-3 – Battle of Gettysburg July 4 – Vicksburg falls November 19 – Lincoln gives the Gettysburg Address September 19-20 – Battle of Chickamauga November 23-25 –Battle of Chattanooga (Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge)
1864	May 5-6 – Battle of the Wilderness May 8-12 – Battle of Spotsylvania May 11 – Battle of Yellow Tavern June 3 – Cold Harbor June 18 – Siege of Petersburg begins June 19 – Battle of the Kearsage and the Alabama June 27 – Battle of Kennesaw Mountain July 30 – The Crater August 5 – Farragut enters Mobile Bay September 2 – Atlanta falls October 18 – Battle of Cedar Creek November 8 – Abraham Lincoln re-elected November 15 – Sherman's March to the Sea begins November 30 – Battle of Franklin December 15-16 – Battle of Nashville December 21 – Sherman reaches Savannah
1865	April 2 – Petersburg and Richmond fall April 9 – Surrender at Appomattox April 15 – Death of President Lincoln


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