American Civil War
Explore American Civil War on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- American Civil War (1861)
- Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
- Surrender at Appomattox (1865)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Lincoln's assassination (1865)
- 13th Amendment abolishes slavery in US (1865)
- Fort Sumter attacked (1861)
- Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Lincoln elected president (1860)
- South Carolina secedes from the Union (1860)
- Sherman's March to the Sea (1864)
- Confederate States of America formed (1861)
- Siege of Vicksburg (1863)
- Sherman takes Atlanta (1864)
- Lincoln wins re-election in wartime (1864)
- Battle of Antietam (1862)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- First Battle of Bull Run (1861)
- Battle of Shiloh (1862)
- Dred Scott decision (1857)
- Juneteenth (1865)
- Black soldiers join the Union army (1863)
- John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
- Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)
- Bleeding Kansas (1854)
- Grant's Overland Campaign (1864)
- Battle of Fredericksburg (1862)
- Reconstruction Era (1865)
- Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858)
- The ironclads duel at Hampton Roads (1862)