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Abraham Lincoln
He declared "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free. He receive 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40% of the popular vote. -
The South Secedes
Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat. It remove the state of South Carolina from the union known as the United States of America -
Mississippi
Mississippi seceded from the Union. A Decelaration of the Immediate causes which Induce and Justify the secession of the state of Mississippi from the Federal Union -
Florida
Florida seceded from the Union. Conflicts over the issue of slavery and its impact on the South's ecomony, in addition to other reasons, led to a split in the Union. -
Alabama Secedes
Alambama passed its Ordinace of Secession on January 11, 1861, joining South Carliona and Mississippi who had seceded days earlier. The story was reported in the February9, 1861 edition of Harper's Weekly, which carried the front page. -
Georgia Decesstion
Georgia secession from the Union followed nearly 2 decades of increasingly intense sectional conflict over the status of slavery. The secession of southern states hastened the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-65). -
Louisiana Secession
Louisiana seceded from the Union. Louisiana delegates vote for seccession. -
Kansas
Admitted to the Union. It was passed by the US Congress, and during its early years as a US possession, the area was part of Indian Territory. -
Texas
Texas seceded from the Union. The South creates a government and it was named provisional president. -
The Confedrate States
The Confederate states of America is formed with Jefferson Davis, a West POint graduate. He was also a former U.S. Army officer, as president. -
Inauguration
Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as 16th President of the United States of America. The picture show a Inaugural Address printed with Lincoln's emendations. -
Cons.
Confederate Constitution -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire making the start of the Civil War. Fort Sumter after its capture, showing damage from the Rebel bombardment of over 3000 shells and now flying the Rebl "Stars and Bars". -
President Lincoln
He issues a Proclamation calling for 75,000 militiamen. He summoning a special session of Congress for July 4. -
Virginia
Seceded from the Union, followed withing 5 weeks by Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, thus forming an 11 state Confederace with a population of 9 million. The Union will soon have 21 states and a population of over 20 million. -
Speech to Congress
Lincoln had did a speech to Congress, states the war is "A People's contest a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government. The Congress authorizes a call for 500,000 men. -
Union Army
The Union Army under Gen. Irvin Mcdowell suffers a defeat at Bull Run 25 miles southwest of Washington. Confederate Gen. Thomas J. Jackson earns the nickname "Stonewall" as his brigade resists Union attacks. -
Ruins of the Stone Bridge
Northenern forces retreated until it was blown up by a Rebel shell adding to the panic of the retreat. The Federals returning to Washington as "a rain-soaked mob." -
President Lincoln appoints McClellan
He appoints him as a Commander of the Department of the Potomac, replacing McDowell. McClellan says he is the President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. -
Rebels begin
President Lincoln revokes Gen. John C. Fremonts unauthorized military proclamation of emancipation in Missouri. He later replaces him with Gen. David Hunter -
Beginning of an international diplomatic
President Lincoln as 2 Confedrate officials sailing toward England to seized by the U.S. Navy. England, the leading world power, demands their release, threating war. -
Surrender of Fort Henry
Victory for Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Tennessee, capturing Fort henry, and ten days later Fort Donelson. Grant earns the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grand -
This Day in the Civil War
President Lincoln is struck with grief as his beloved eleven year old son, Willie, dies from fever, probably cause by polluted drinking water in the White House. He came down with measles, the disease that wreaked havoc on armies in the 1 year of the war. -
The Battle of Monitor
Merrimac sinks two wooden Union ships then battles the Union Ironclad Monitor to a draw. Naval warfare is thus changed forever, making wooden ships obsolet. -
Battle of Shiloh
Confedrate surprise attack on Gen.Ulysses S. Grants unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River results in a bitter struggle with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more men than in all previous American wars combined. The president is then pressured to relieve Grant -
17 Ships
17 Union ships under command of Flag Officer David Farragut move up the Mississippi River then take New Orleans, the Souths greastest seaport. Later in the war, sailing through a Rebel mine field Fattagut. -
The Battle of Seven Pines
The Battle of 7 Pines as Gen. Joseph E. Johnsons Army attacks McClellans troops in front of Richmond and nearly defeats them. But Johnston is badly wouned. -
Continue The Battle of Seven Pines
Gen. Robert E. Lee assumes command, replacing the wounded Johnston. Lee than renames his force the Army of Northern Virginia. McClellan is not impressed. -
Second Battle of Bull Run
75,000 Federals under Gen.John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Gen. James Longstreet at the second battle of Bull Run in northern Virginia. Once again the Union Army retreats to Washington. The president then relieves Pope. -
Lee's First Invasion of the North
Lee invades the North with 50,000 Confederates and heads for Harpers Ferry, located 50 miles northwest of Washington. The Union Army, 90,000 strong, under the command of McClellan, purses Lee. -
Battle of Antietam
The bloodies day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces. By nightfall 26,00 men are dead, wounded, or missing. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves issued by President Lincoln. President Lincoln visits Gen. George McClellan at Antietam, Maryland - October, 1862 -
Ambrose Burnside
The president replaces McClellan with Gen. Burnside as the new Commander of the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln had grown impatient with McClellans slowness to follow up on the success at Antietam. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
Army of the Potomac under Gen. Burnside suffers a costly defeat at Fredericksbrug in Virginia with a loss of 12,653 men after 14 frontal assaults on well entrenched Rebels on Mary's Heights. -
Continue of Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates and emphasizes the enlisting of black soldiers in the Union Army. The war to preserve the Union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery. -
Burnside relieved of command
The president appoints Gen. Joseph as Commander of the Army of the Potomac, replacing Burnside. -
Battle Summary
Gen. Grant is placed in command of the Army of the West, with orders to capture Vicksburg. -
Congress passes the Conscription Act
The US Congress enacts a draft, affecting male citizens aged 20 to 45, but also exempts those who pay $300 or provide a substitute. Congress passes the Conscription Act March 3, 1863, calling for the enlistment in military service of all able-bodied. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
The Union Army under Gen. Hooker is decisively defeated by Lee's much forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia as a result of Lee's brilliant and daring tactics. In the meantime, Lee left a covering force under Maj. Gen. Jubal Early in Fredericksburg and marched with the rest of his army to confront the large Federal force. -
Stonewall Jackson
The South suffers a huge blow as Stonewall Jackson dies from the wounds. Jackson would spend his remaining days bed-ridden in Thomas C. Chandler's plantation office, having refused an offer from Chandler to use is personal residence.
