civil war

  • The South Secedes.

    When Abraham Lincoln,was elected president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat. Calling a state convention, the delegates voted to remove the state of South Carolina from the union known as the United States of America.
  • The South Creates a Government.

  • The South Seizes Federal Forts.

  • Lincoln's Inauguration.

  • Attack on Fort Sumter.

  • Four More States Join the Confederacy.

  • West Virginia Is Born.

  • Four Slave States Stay in the Union.

  • A Blockade of the South.

  • First Battle Of Bull Run

  • General McDowell Is Replaced

  • Abraham Lincoln Takes Action.

  • McClellan Loses Command.

  • Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac

  • The Battle of Shiloh.

  • Fort Pulaski, Georgia

  • The Gettysburg Campaign.

  • The Battle of Chickamauga.

  • Chattanooga -- September

  • The Battle of Spotsylvania.

  • The Siege of Petersburg.

  • Sherman at the Sea

  • Fort Fisher, North Carolina

  • The Execution of Captain Henry Wirz