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April 1861
President Lincoln announced a blockade of all confederate ports. -
July 21, 1861
Union troops commanded by General Irvin McDowell attacked a smaller confederate force led by General P.G.T. Beauregard. -
1862
The Confederate Congress passed a draft that required able-bodied white men between ages 18-35 to serve for three years. -
Feb. 1862
The battles for the rivers began including when the Union Forces captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee River. -
March 8, 1862
The Virginia attacked Union Ships in the Chesapeake Bay. -
April 25, 1862
Union naval forces under David Farragut captured New Orleans, Louisiana, the largest city in the South. -
Sep. 22, 1862
Lincoln announced that he would issue the Emancipation Proclamation. -
1863
Harriet Tubman led a mission that freed many enslaved people and disrupted Southern supply lines. -
Jan. 1, 1863
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all the enslaved people in Rebel-Held Territory. -
May 1863
Robert E. Lee met Union Forces led by General Joseph Hooker in the battle of Chancellorsville. -
1864
Union Forces Fully surrounded the South -
March 1864
President Lincoln put General Grant in charge of all the Union Armies. -
April 9, 1865
Robert E. Lee surrendered and the war ended
