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Lincoln Gets Elected
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Period: to
Civil War
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South Carolina Secedes
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Kansas admitted as 34th state
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Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor
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Battle of Shiloh
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Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
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Emancipation Proclomation takes effect
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Lincoln delivers Gettsburg adress
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Lincoln elected for second term
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Sherman begins his march to the sea
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Linoln is shot at Ford's Theater
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Lincoln's assassin (Booth) trapped and killed
