From Lincoln’s Election to War

By MrsGrenier
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    Road to Civil War

  • Provisional Congress of Confederate States Meets

    Provisional Congress of Confederate States Meets

  • Confederacy elects Jefferson Davis presidents

  • in a speech, lincoln states ``there is no need for bloodshed or war''

  • Davis appoints three people to try "peaceful negotiations of differences"

  • Lincoln's Inauguration

    Lincoln calls the South ''insurrectionary.''

  • lincoln refuses to recognize confederate comissioners

  • Confederate cannons fire on Fort Sumter

  • Union Surrenders at Fort Sumter