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LIncoln Elected
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th presiadent of the United States. -
South Carolina Secedes
South Carolina was the first state to secede the Union. -
Mississippi Secedes
Mississippi was the second state to secede from the Union. -
Florida Secedes
The third state to seced from the Union. -
Alabama Secedes
The fourth state to leave the Union. -
Georgia Secedes
Georgia is the fith state to secede from the Union. -
Louisiana Secedes
Was the sixth state to leave the Union. -
Texas Secedes
The seventh state to leave the Union. -
Fort Sumter
Began on April 12th, 1861, this is known as the first battle of the civil war. -
Lincoln Calls for 75,00 Volunteers
Considered as a rash dicision, Lincoln called for troops to invade Virgiania. -
Virginia Secedes
The eighth state to seced from the Union. -
Arkansas Secedes
the ninth state to secede from the Union. -
North Carolina
tenth state to seced from the Union -
Tennessee Secedes
eleventh state to secede from the Union. -
1st Manassass
This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. The Union army marched from Washington against the Confederate army. -
McClellan becomes commander
Abraham Lincol puts McClellan as commander of entire Union army. -
Fort Henry
Fought in western tennesse, it was the first important victory for the Union and Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater. -
Fort Donelson
The Battle of Fort Donelson was fought from February 11 to February 16, 1862, in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The capture of the fort by Union forces opened the Cumberland River as an avenue for the invasion of the South. This was a big win for Grant. -
Robert E. Lee becomes commander
Lincoln originally asked him to lead the Union army but Lee refused. Lee became a great Southern hero and his popularity grew in the North, as well, after his death in 1870. -
Merrimac v Monitor
Often referred to as he Battle of Hampton Roads, this was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War. This was the first naval battle with ironclads. -
Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. -
Pope becomes commander
John Pope was a Union general that had a brief career in the Western Theater, but he is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run -
2nd Manassas( 2nd Bull Run)
The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas, as it was called by the Confederacy, was fought August 28–30, 1862, by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope. -
Sharpsburg (Antietam)
The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was also the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, -
Burnside Becomes Commander
McClellan was removed after failing to pursue General Robert E. Lee's retreat from Antietam, and Burnside was assigned to command the Army of the Potomac on November 7, 1862. -
Fredricksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac. -
Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the Civil War.It was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville. -
Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is described as the war's turning point -
13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Siege of Petersburg
The campaign was nine months of trench warfare in which Union forces commanded by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Petersburg unsuccessfully and then constructed trench lines that eventually extended from the eastern outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, to around the eastern and southern outskirts of Petersburg. -
Atlanta Captured
Hood's army was besieged in Atlanta and the city fell on September 2, hastening the end of the war -
Battle of Nashville
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15–16, 1864. -
Lee Surrenders
Lee's final stand was at Appomattox Court House, where he launched an attack to break through the Union force to his front, assuming the Union force consisted entirely of cavalry. When he realized that the cavalry was backed up by two corps of Union infantry, he had no choice but to surrender. -
Joseph E. Johnson Surrenders
April 18, 1865 – Confederate General Joseph E. Johnson Surrenders the remaining Confederate forces to Union General William Tecumseh Sherman near Durham, North Carolina
