American Civil War

By TuwtleKid95

  • Lincoln Elected President

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • Mississippi Secedes

  • Florida Secedes

  • Alabama Secedes

  • Georgia Secedes

  • Louisiana Secedes

  • Texas Secedes

  • Formation of The Confederate States of America

  • Lincoln's Inauguration

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

  • Virginia Secedes

  • Supsension of Habeas Corpus

  • Arkansas Secedes

  • North Carolina Secedes

  • Tennessee Secedes

  • First Battle of Bull Run Fought

  • Edwin Stanton Becomes Secretary of War

  • Battle of Shiloh

  • CSA Draft

    Conscription Act passed in the South.

  • Capture of New Orleans

  • Antietam

    Bloodiest day of the war.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

  • USA Draft

    Conscription Act passed in the North

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    Ended May 6.

  • Stonewall Jackson Dies

  • Battle of Vicksburg

    Ended July 4.

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Battle of Chickamauga

  • Siege of Knoxville

  • Battle of Atlanta

  • Lincoln Re-Elected as President

  • General Sherman Arrives at Savannah

  • Battle of Appomattox Court House

    One of the last battles of the Civil War.

  • John Wilkes Booth Captured and Shot

  • Capture of Jefferson Davis

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