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Presidential election of 1860.
The nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the new President and Vice President of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln won this election, served as the 16th and first President from the Republican party. -
South Carolina secedes from Union.
The state of South Carolina, was the first slave state in the South to proclaim that it had seceded from the U.S. The Declaration of the Immediate Causes, which induced and Justified the secession of this state took place on the 24th of December, 1860. -
Forming of Confederate States of America.
A representative from each of the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama so that they could establish a unified government. Which was named as "The Confederate States of America". -
Jefferson Davis appointed president of Confederacy.
A man named Jefferson Davis was appointed as the only president of the "Confederate States of America" on the 9th of February, 1861. -
Lincoln’s first inaugural address.
Abraham Lincoln took oath of office for his first term as the sixteenth president of the United States of America, on Monday, March 4th, 1861. -
Battle of Fort Sumter.
The Confederate States Army attacked Fort Sumter (near Charleston, South Carolina). It was a Confederate victory. This event started the American civil war. -
(First) Battle of Bull Run (Manassas).
The first major land battle of the Civil War, the Union and Confederate armies clashed. It resulted to be as a Confederate victory which gave them confidence to keep moving forward. The Union Army were left shocked. -
First Battle of ironclads.
The first meeting in combat of ironclad warships. (The USS monitor and the CSS confederate). -
Battle of Shiloh.
A battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, in Southwestern Tennessee. -
Siege of New Orleans by Union.
A naval action by Union forces seeking to capture this land during the Civil War. Confederate Army suffers from permanent loss. -
(Second) Battle of Bull Run.
Fought during the American Civil war. It was larger in scale and had a greater number of casualties than the first battle of Bull Run -
Battle of Antietam.
Known to be "the bloodiest day in American history". A battle fought between Lee's army of North Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac. -
Emancipation Proclamation.
A presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln -
Battle of Vicksburg (siege).
General Ulysses S. Grant's armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate Army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. -
Battle of Gettysburg.
The most important engagement of the American Civil War. A Union victory that stopped Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. -
Draft Riots begin in New York City.
Known as the "Draft Week". Violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan against the new law passed by congress that men will draft to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. -
54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry in combat.
An infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. -
Sacking of Lawrence, Kansas by Confederates.
"The Lawrence massacre", an attack during the American Civil War by the Quantrill's Raiders. Resulted as a Confederate victory. -
Gettysburg Address.
A speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln for a declaration of Soldier's National Cemetery, for the fallen Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. -
First Successful Submarine Attack of the Civil War.
Hand cranked Confederate submarine "H.L. Hunley" torpedoed the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor. -
Battle of the wilderness Virginia.
Lt. Gen. Ulysses S Grant's first battle. 1864's Virginia overland against General. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate army of Northern Virginia. -
Fall of Atlanta, Georgia.
The Union forces were neutralizing the important rail and supply hub. Resulted as a Union victory, defeating the Confederates. -
Lincoln wins a second term.
Abraham Lincoln is reelected for president. He was seen as a moderate for slavery. This worried the Southerners and they vowed to leave the Union if he was reelected. -
Sherman's Army of Georgia arrives at Savannah, Georgia.
Sherman's army was a campaign for the Civil war and it conducted through the state of Georgia. Army of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union army. -
Assault and capture of Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
A successful assault for the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, near the end of the American Civil War. -
Lincoln’s 2nd inaugural address.
Abraham Lincoln takes oath at his second inauguration to start his second term as president. -
Sherman’s troops occupy Fayetteville, NC.
Sherman and his Union troops occupy Fayetteville. They went to capture and destroy the Confederate arsenal. -
Battle of Appomattox Courthouse (Lee surrenders).
The Union and Confederacy fought on this day, it was one of the last battles of the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. -
Lincoln assassinated.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the U.S. gets assassinated by an well known actor John Wilkes Booth, while attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
