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Elected to first term as President of the United States
Lincoln elected President On November 6, 1860, Lincoln won the presidential election without the support of a single Southern state. Talk of secession, bandied about since the 1830s, took on a serious new tone. The Civil War was not entirely caused by Lincoln’s election, but the election was one of the primary reasons the war broke out the following year. -
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President Lincoln and the Civil War
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Civil War begins at Fort Sumter
Battle at Fort Sumter The Civil War with the opening bombardment of Fort Sumter,
South Carolina, on April 12, 1861. Lincoln forced the Confederate hand with his decision to resupply the fort, which had suddenly become an outpost in a hostile nation. The Southern navy turned away the supply convoy and then fired the first shot of the war at Fort Sumter, forcing the Federal defenders to surrender after a 34-hour battle. -
Homestead Act
Homestead Act of 1862 With the secession of Southern states from the Union and therefore removal of the slavery issue, finally, in 1862, the Homestead Act was passed and signed into law. The new law established a three-fold homestead acquisition process: filing an application, improving the land, and filing for deed of title. Any U.S. citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. Government could f -
Revenue Act
Revenue Act of 1862. The Revenue Act of 1862 established the United States' first income tax, largely to pay the costs of total war. -
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Antietam This battle was fought on Wednesday, September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek. It was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with 22,717 dead, wounded and missing on both sides combined -
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation, which was legally based on the President’s right to seize the property of those in rebellion against the State, only freed slaves in Southern states where Lincoln’s forces had no control. Nevertheless, it changed the tenor of the war, making it, from the Northern point of view, a fight both to preserve the Union and to end slavery. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Lientenant General Grant Ulysses S. Grant was born April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the Civil War, he relentlessly pursued the enemy and in 1864 was entrusted with command of all U.S. armies. -
President Lincoln's second inaguration speech
Lincoln's second inaguration March 4, 1865, he set the tone he intended to take when the war finally ended. His one goal, he said, was “lasting peace among ourselves.” He called for “malice towards none” and “charity for all.” The war ended only a month later. -
War Ends
Tour or McLean house Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, At the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House.[190] In an untraditional gesture and as a sign of Grant's respect and anticipation of peacefully restoring Confederate states to the Union, Lee was permitted to keep his sword and his horse, Traveller -
President Lincoln is Assassinated
Lincoln's Assissination On April 14, 1865, while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., Abraham Lincoln was shot by Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth. The assassination was part of a larger plot to eliminate the Northern government that also left Secretary of State William Seward grievously injured. Lincoln died the following day, and with him the hope of reconstructing the nation without bitterness.
