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Lincoln is elected president
Lincoln is elected president. -
Lincoln orders blockade of the south
Lincoln is elected president and orders a blockade of the south. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is bombarded and surrenders to South Carolina troops led by P. G. T. Beauregard. -
1st Battle of Bull Run
Confederate forces win a victory at the First Battle of Manassas. Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson earns the nickname “Stonewall” for his tenacity in the battle. -
Monitor vs. Virginia naval battle
This naval battle fought over two days, March 8–9, 1862, in Hampton Roads, a roadstead in Virginia where the Elizabeth and Nansemond Rivers meet the James River just before it enters Chesapeake Bay. The battle was a part of the effort of the Confederacy to break the Union blockade, which had cut off Virginia's largest cities, Norfolk and Richmond, from international trade. -
Battle of Shiloh
This battle was fought in southwestern Tennessee. One Union Army under Major General Ulysses S. Grant moved into Tennessee by the Tennessee River and was camped at Pittsburg Landing on the west bank of the river. Confederate forces launched a surprise attack on Grant there. The Confederates achieved considerable success on the first day but were defeated by the Union the second day. -
Seven Day Campain
Battels around Richmond, Virginia that began on June 26th, 1862. The North won but both North and South sufferened many casualites. -
Second Battle of Bull Run
The South is again victorious at the Second Battle of Manassas. -
Antietam
Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg. The first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union grounds. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with 22,717 dead, wounded and missing on both sides combined. -
Emancipation Proclamation issued
Issued to all segments of the Executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the United States by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. It was based on the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces; it was not a law passed by Congress. Declared that all slaves were free from now on. -
Emancipation Proclamation takes effect
Abraham Lincoln signs the final Emancipation Proclamation, which ends slavery in the rebelling states. -
Battle at Chancellorsville
Fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville. The Union army under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker fought against a Confederate army that was less than half it's size. The Confederate army ran by Gen. Robert E. Lee was split up. This was a risky decision but it resulted in a victory for the south. -
Battle at Chattanooga
There were three battles fought in Chattanooga, Tennessee during the Civil War. The Union won. It gave them the ability to move further south. It was one of the major turning points in the Civil War -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburgwas fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North. -
Siege of Vicksburg
Major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. -
Chattanooga Campaign
The Chattanooga Campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in October and November 1863, during the American Civil War. The Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg besieged Rosecrans and his men by occupying key high terrain around Chattanooga, Tennessee. Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was given command of Union forces in the West and significant reinforcements began to arrive with him in Chattanooga from Mississippi and the Eastern Theater. -
Ulysses S. Grant takes over the Union Army
In March of 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a brief document officially promoting Major General Ulysses S. Grant to the rank of lieutenant general of the U.S. Army, tasking the future president with the job of leading all Union troops against the Confederate Army. -
Sherman Captures Atlanta
Sherman had taken the Deep South's major manufacturing center and railroad hub, a huge loss for the Confederacy. -
Lincoln Re-Election
On November 8 in 1864, Northern voters overwhelmingly endorse the leadership and policies of President Abraham Lincoln when they elect him to a second term. With his re-election, any hope for a negotiated settlement with the Confederacy vanished. -
Sherman's March to Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 16 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. Sherman's forces destroyed military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property. -
13th Amendment passed
The U.S. Congress approves the thirteenth Ammendment to the United States, after that its submitted to the states for rafication. -
Robert E. Lee surrenders
The union surrounds him and he surrenders. -
Abraham Lincoln shot and killed
Abraham Lincoln was shoot and wounded by John Wilkes Booth a day later he died.
