The major battles of the civil lasted 1861-1863

1861 South Carolina attacks Fort Sumter Confederacy defeats Union at First Battle of Bull Run

1862 Union defeats Confederacy at Shiloh and Antietam

1863 Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation Union defeats Confederacy at Gettysburg and Vicksburg Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

South Carolina attacks fort Sumter

The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War. The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, had been preceded by months of siege-like conditions.uth Carolina attacks

First battle of bull run !!!

First Battle of Bull Run, also known as Battle of First Manassas, (21 July 1861), the first major battle of the American Civil War (1861-65), fought at a small meandering stream and tributary of the Potomac River named Bull Run near Manassas in northern Virginia. It was a chaotic encounter fought by volunteers short of training and organization and haphazardly equipped. It ended in victory for the Confederates under General Pierre Beauregard. The defeat shocked the Union into mobilizing resources for a long war.