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Abraham Lincoln ran for presidency and was elected. He was going to lead the U.S. in the civil war.
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A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by confederate troops, beginning the Civil War.
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It shattered the North's hopes of winning the war quickly. It was the first major battle of the civil war.
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The Second Battle of Bull Run was going to be the deciding battle in the Civil War.
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This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle of the civil war and of U.S. history. More soldiers were killed in this battle than any other past war combined.
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The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union.
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Lee's troops ran into union general G. Meade's cavalry triggering the battle.
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President Lincoln gave a speech at a ceremony dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg.
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The commander of the army of Northern Virginia Robert E. Lee, surrendered his Confederate forces to the Union Army.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford's Theater just as the American Civil War was starting to end.
