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Benjamin Henry perfects the Henry rifle which was manufactured by the New Haven Arms Company
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From St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California the Pony Express could deliver a letter faster than ever before
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Civil war Timeline
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Lincoln gave a speech at Cooper Union in New York City.
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Abraham Lincoln visited the Five Points, the most notorious slum in America. which lead to his victory as president.
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Annie Oakley, sharpshooter who became an entertainment phenomenon, was born in Ohio.
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Abe is elected president with 40% of popular votes.
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Breckinridge Came in second in the 1860 election with 72 electoral college votes.
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Bell came in third place with 39 electoral college votes and 600,000 popular votes.
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Douglas came in last place with 12 electoral college votes but he had over 1.3 million popular votes.
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First state to Secede from the union.
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Mississippi is the second state to Secede.
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Georgia Seceded From the union.
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Texas Seceded from the union on this date.
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The C.S.A ( Confederate States Of America) Are formed.
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Lincoln is sworn in to be president. He wins with 180 electoral college votes.
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The Attack on Fort Sumter begins. And so does the Civil war.
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Virginia Secedes from the Union.
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Arkansas Seceded From the union on this date.
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The first Battle of Bull Run happened. Fought in Virginia.
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Lincoln appoints McClellan as the commander replacing McDowell.
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General Ulysses S. Grant captures fort Henry in in Tennessee.
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General Ulysses S. Grant Captures Fort Donelson 10 days after Fort Henry.
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Merrimack and Virginia attacked 3 wooden union warships and sunk them
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Monitor shows up & fought each other until the Merrimack backed off
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17 union ships under the command of flag officer David Farragut move up the Mississippi River then take New Orleans.
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Joseph E Johnstons army attacks McClellans troops in front of Richmond and nearly defeats them.
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The series of the Seven days Battles begins
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After four months Lincoln hands over the task to General Henry W Halleck.
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The bloodiest battle in U.S history with 26,000 dead or missing in one night.
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The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Lincoln.
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Freed slaves in states hostile to the south.
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Grant is placed in order of the west in order to capture Vicksburg.
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The South suffers as Stonewall Jackson dies from his wounds.
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Lee 75,000 Troops launches his second invasion on the north leading to Gettysburg.
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The Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
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The Confederates Surrender 1 week later the Union controls the Mississippi River.
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Lincoln meets with Frederick Douglass and pushes for negro Troops.
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A Confederate victory by Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga.
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Lincoln appoints Grant to control everything in the western theater
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Lincoln delivers one of the most historic speeches ever. The Gettysburg Address.
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Death of Archbishop John Hughes, an immigrant priest who became a political force in New York City
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President Lincoln appoints Gen. Grant to command all of the armies of the United States. Gen. William T. Sherman succeeds Grant as commander in the west
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The first burial took place at Arlington National Cemetery
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A costly mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties in twenty minutes.
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At Atlanta, Sherman's forces battle the Rebels now under the command of Gen. John B. Hood, who replaced Johnston
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Democrats nominate George B. McClellan for president to run against Republican incumbent Abraham Lincoln
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Atlanta is captured by Sherman's Army
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A decisive Union victory in the Shenandoah Valley over Jubal Early's troops.
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Abraham Lincoln is re elected president, defeating Democrat George B. McClellan.
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After destroying Atlanta's warehouses and railroad facilities, Sherman, with 62,000 men begins a March to the Sea
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The U.S. Congress approves the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, to abolish slavery
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A peace conference occurs as President Lincoln meets with Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens
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President Lincoln tours Richmond where he enters the Confederate White House
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Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia
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Lincoln & his wife went to Ford’s Theater And there he was shoot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth
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The very next day after Lincoln was shoot in the back of the head he died.
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Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to Sherman near Durham in North Carolina
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John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed in a tobacco barn in Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln is laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery, outside Springfield, Illinois
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, is finally ratified
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Fisk University opens in Nashville Tennessee
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New York Legislature forms NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
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President Johnson vetos the Civil Rights Act of 1866 on the grounds that it was unconstitutional
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Congress overrides President Andrew Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Act
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1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg Quebec
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Ulysses S. Grant named 1st General of Army
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New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150
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Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention
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First national convention of Grand Army of Republic
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On the 6th anniversary of secession, South Carolina rejects the 14th Amendment
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Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
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Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in southern USA
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US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000
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Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
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US Congress passes 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto
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1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
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US President Andrew Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
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1st girls School opens in Haarlem, The Netherlands
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US Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson
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United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits
