Think and Apply Sequencing Events Write the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 next to these sentences to show the correct order. In 1862 President Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1861 Confederate soldiers attacked Fort Sumter. President Lincoln was killed after the war ended. The war ended when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant. In 1865 the Union captured the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.