Who Freed the Slaves?

Student Handout in PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 2 pages.
This timeline can be used as a resource for lessons on the Civil War, President Lincoln, the 54th Regiment, and the end of slavery.

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Timeline of relevant events from September 1858 until General Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865.

Published by Rethinking Schools.

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, Northern, Major General Dix, General Burnside, Colonel Pryor, Frederick Douglass, Union General Fremont, General Hunter, The War Department, Emancipation Proclamation, New York City, The Massachusetts 54th Infantry, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, Fort Wagner, General Ulysses S. Grant, President Jefferson Davis, The Confederate Congress