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Chapter 16 Georgia in the Civil War 85
Section 2 The War Comes to Georgia
Skills Practice
Timeline of Key Civil War Events
Directions: Identify the month and year that each of the events below took place. en, use that list to make a timeline
of key events in the Civil War period.
Month/Year
_________________ Lincoln’s first election
_________________ South Carolina secedes
_________________ Fort Sumter
_________________ Georgia secedes
_________________ Battle of Gettysburg
_________________ Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect
_________________ Battle of Chickamauga
_________________ Battle of Antietam
_________________ Sherman captures Atlanta
_________________ Sherman captures Savannah
_________________ War ends with Lee’s surrender
1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865