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The Election of Lincoln
In 1860 Lincoln was elected the sixteenth president of the United States. From that day forward was the American Civil War. The nation had been spread throughout the 1850s on curiousity of states' rights and slavery in the territories. -
South Carolina
Today they were seceded..On December 20, 1860, after it was final Lincoln would be the next president, South Carolina became the first state to declare its secession from the Union. -
Mississppi
Mississippi became the second state to declare its secession from the Union, and it was one of the founding members of the Confederate States of America. -
Florida
Florida declared its secession from the Union; ten days after, Florida became a founding member of the Confederate States of America. -
Alabama
Alabama declared its secession from the Union and joined the Confederate States of America. While chosen battles were fought in the state, Alabama put up about 120,000 soldiers to the Civil War. -
Georgia
Georgia became the last former Confederate state to be reseated in Congress and placed back into the Union. -
Louisiana
The last Spanish governor of the Louisiana territory wrote, "Truly, it is impossible for lower Louisiana to get along without slaves" and with the use of slaves, the colony had been "making great strides toward prosperity and wealth." -
Texas
Congress readmitted Texas into the Union in 1870. Social hostility continued as the state struggled with labor issues and agricultural depression. -
The Battle of Ft. Sumter
Beneath all of the darkness on December 26, 1860, Anderson spiked the cannons at Fort Moultrie and moved his plans to Fort Sumter. South Carolina authorities considered this was a breach of faith and demanded that the fort be cleared out completely. -
Virginia
On April 24, Virginia joined the Confederate States of America,and chose Richmond as its capital. -
Arkansas
Arkansas declared its secession from the Union on May 6, 1861. Not seen in too many historical accounts, the state was the scene of numerous small battles during the American Civil War. -
North Carolina
The state did not vote to join the Confederacy until President Abraham Lincoln demanded to invade the sister-state, South Carolina, becoming the second to last state to officially join the Confederacy. -
Tennessee
When the Emancipation Proclamation came about,Tennessee was mostly held by Union forces. Tennessee was not among the states included in the Proclamation, and the Proclamation did not free any slaves there. -
First Battle of Bull Run
Just months after the start of the war at Fort Sumter, the Northern public pleaded for a march against the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, which would bring an early end to the war. -
First Battle Of Chattanooga
In late spring 1862, the Confederacy divided its forces in Tennessee into numerous small commands in an attempt to affect the Federal operations. -
Antietam
Near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 deaths. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
The Battle of Fredricksburg was the result of an effort by the Union Army to regain the initiative in its struggle. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was frowned upon at the time for freeing only the slaves over which the Union had no authority. Although, most slaves were not free immediately, the Proclamation brought freedom to thousands of slaves the day it was set. -
Gettysburg
The fight started in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point. -
Siege of Knoxville
The Knoxville Campaign was a series of American Civil War battles in East Tennessee during the fall of 1863. -
Battle of Cold Harbor
The Battle of Cold Harbor, is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most intense battles.
"I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made. I might say the same thing of the assault of the 22d of May, 1863, at Vicksburg. At Cold Harbor no advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained." -
Shermans March to Sea
"Die freemen rather than live as slaves" -
Appomattox Courthouse
By Lee surrending to Grant it ended the war between the states. -
Assassination of Lincoln
The Assassination was one of the last major events that happened in the American Civil War. It was Good Friday, April 14, 1865, when President Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a performance of, Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. -
Harper's Ferry
Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Harpers Ferry, along with both Berkeley and Jefferson Counties, were separated from Virginia and bounced into West Virginia. -
First Consumption Act
