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Lincoln is elected president
Lincoln is a republican from Springfield, Illinois. He wanted to limit slavery, and stop it from expanding. He had about 40 percent of the popular votes and 180 electoral votes, compared with 133 for his opponents combined, and won the election. -
Confederate States of America is formed
They were the sum of 11 states that seceded from the United States from the election of Lincon. The confederate was at a loss for legitimacy and they weren't ever seen as a real nation. After losing to the U.S. the Confederate States didn't exist. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
In this battle forces from the Confederate States of America assaulted the United States military fort at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Less than two days later, the stronghold surrendered. No one was destroyed. The battle, still, began the Civil War, the gory conflict in the American past, 15 estimated deaths. -
President Lincoln declares a blockade of Southern ports
The blockade was to extend the block of all southern ports including Virginia and North Carolina. They did this because they wanted to stop the trade of goods, supplies, and weapons between the Confederacy and other nations. -
First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
This battle was also known as the Battle of Manassas, this was known as the first major land battle. The battle began when about 35,000 Union military drilled from the combined capital in Washington, D.C. to affect a Confederate force of 20,000 ahead of a limited waterway popular as Bull Run, The Conferadte won. -
Battle of Shiloh
This battle was also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, it let Union troops sneak into the Confederate interior. The Union won this battle, and the South’s defeat at Shiloh done the Confederacy’s hopes of obstructing the Union advance into Mississippi and hopeless the Confederate military push in the West and more than 23,000 were ethier dead or wounded. -
Battle of Antietam
The battle was also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, the Union win at Antietam supported President Abraham Lincoln the excuse he had cherished to release the Emancipation Proclamation, making the Battle of Antietam individual of the key curving points of the American Civil War. There were about 12,400 Unions killed and 10,320 Confederates killed. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." The nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Union had achieved the Battle of Gettysburg. Though the careful Meade hopeful reviewed for not ensuing the antagonist subsequently Gettysburg, the battle was a final defeat for the Confederacy. Union victims in the battle fated 23,000, while the Confederates had dreaming few 28,000 men–more than an after second Lee's company. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address was a speech given by Lincoln to honor a new National Cemetery at Gettysburg. It too presents Lincoln's purpose for leaving to win the Civil War - the annulling of subjugation. -
Sherman’s March to the Sea
The Sherman's March to the sea was when Union General William T. Sherman managed a few 60,000 commandos on a 285-5 debouch from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea search out scare Georgia's civilian people into leaving behind the Confederate cause. -
13th amendment to Constitution
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in all the U.S. states and territories and outlawed the practice of involuntary servitude and peonage. -
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
President Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address on this day and he urged people to "bind up the nation's wounds" caused by the Civil War and to move toward a better lasting peace. -
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
The Battle of Appomattox Court House began all the while the first glance hours, by the siesta of the unchanging era, General Robert E. Lee, an officer of all Confederate forces, surrendered his army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Lincoln Assassinated
On this day actor, John Wilkes Booth filed the administrative box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. and giving small ground for hope discharge President Abraham Lincoln. As Lincoln declined forward in his welcome seat, Booth after he shot Lincoln dead escaped out the back door and was never to be found.