TIMELINE OF EVENTS

CHAPTER 13 REVIEW

1861 Fort Sumter attacked
Slaves declared “contraband”
U.S. Sanitary Commission established
Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Confiscation Act passed
1862 Battle of Shiloh
Conscription act signed in South
Battle of Antietam
1863 Emancipation Proclamation signed
Enrollment Act passed in North
New York City draft riots
Battle of Gettysburg
Siege of Vicksburg
1864 Atlanta falls
Sand Creek Massacre
Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
1865 More than 200,000 African Americans serve in the Union army and navy
Field Order Number 15
Thirteenth Amendment passed
Lee surrenders to Grant
Lincoln assassinated