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Presdiential Election
The first election of President Abraham Lincoln. -
South Carolina Secedes
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Mississippi Secedes
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Flordia Secedes
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Alabama Secedes
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Georgia Secedes
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Louisiana secedes
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Texas Secedes
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Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America is formed and Jefferson Davis is named its President. -
Attack on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy
April 14, 1865
At 4:30 AM Confederates under General Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins. -
Fort Sumter Surrender
The surrender of Fort Sumter to the Confederacy. -
Virginia Secedes
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Tennessee Secedes
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Arkansas Secedes
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North Carolina Secedes
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First Battle of Bull Run
The Union Army under Gen. Irvin McDowell suffers a defeat at Bull Run 25 miles southwest of Washington. Confederate Gen. Thomas J. Jackson earns the nickname "Stonewall," as his brigade resists Union attacks. Union troops fall back to Washington. -
Victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
General Ulysses S. Grant gets Union victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee. -
Battle of the Ironclads
March 8, 1862 to March 9,1862
The Confederate Ironclad 'Merrimac' sinks two wooden Union ships then battles the Union Ironclad 'Monitor' to a draw. Naval warfare is thus changed forever, making wooden ships obsolete.This took place at Hampton Roads. -
Battle of Shiloh
April 6, 1862 to April 7, 1862
Confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's at Shiloh on the Tennessee River. Ends with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, -
New Orleans Seaport Capture
April 24, 1862
David Farragut and the Union Navy saptures the seaport of New Orleans. -
Northern Virginia Army
General Robert E. Lee is given command of the Army of Northern Virginia. -
The Seven Day Battle
June 25, 1862 to July 1, 1862
Lee attacked McClellan near Richmond. The result was very heavy losses for both armies. McClellan then withdrawals back toward Washington. -
The Second Battle of Bull Run
August 29, 1862 to August 30, 1862
75,000 Federals under Gen. John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Gen. James Longstreet at the second battle of Bull Run in northern Virginia. The Union Army retreats to Washington. -
Battle of Antietam
The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces. By nightfall 26,000 men are dead, wounded, or missing. Lee then withdraws to Virginia. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
Army of the Potomac under Gen. Burnside suffers a costly defeat at Fredericksburg in Virginia with a loss of 12,653 men after 14 frontal assaults on well entrenched Rebels on Marye's Heights. Confederate losses are 5,309. -
First Military Draft of Men
The Union enacts or passes a law creating the first military draft of men into the army. -
Battle of Chancellorscille
May 1,1863 to May 4,1863
The Union Army under Gen. Hooker is decisively defeated by Lee's much smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia as a result of Lee's brilliant and daring tactics. Hooker retreats. Union losses are 17,000 killed, wounded and missing out of 130,000. The Confederates, 13, 000 out of 60,000. -
Stonewall Dies
Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson dies. -
Battle of Gettysburg
July 1, 1863 to July 3, 1863
The Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. -
The Capture of Vicksburg
Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi
July 4, 1863
River, surrenders to Gen. Grant and the Army of the West after a six week siege. With the Union now in control of the Mississippi, the Confederacy is effectively split in two, cut off from its western allies. -
Andersonville War Camp
Late in Feburary the opening of the Confederate war camp in Andersonville. -
The Wilderness Campaign
May 5, 1864 to May 7, 1864
The Battle of the Wilderness was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. -
Battle of Spotsylvania
May 8, 1864 – May 21, 1864
Following the Battle of the Wilderness, Grant marched the Union army south with the hope of capturing Spotsylvania Court House. Lee's Confederates, however, managed to get ahead of the Federals and block the road. For the next two weeks, the two armies slugged it out in some of the fiercest fighting of the Civil War. The result was inconclusive. -
Battle at Cold Harbor
May 31, 1864 to June 12, 1864
Second Battle of Cold Harbor: May 31-June 12, 1864. In early May 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) launched his Overland campaign, in which his Army of the Potomac clashed with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in a series of battles in Virginia. The confederate Army won. -
Battle of Petersburg
June 9, 1864 – March 25, 1865
During the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia collide for the last time as the first wave of Union troops attacks Petersburg, a vital Southern rail center 23 miles south of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. The two massive armies would not become disentangled until April 9, 1865, when Lee surrendered and his men went home. -
Re-election
Presdient Lincoln is re-elected for a 2nd term. -
March to the Sea
Union Gen. William T. Sherman burns Atlanta, GA. to the ground and begins his March to the Sea. -
Savannah, GA
Union General William T. Sherman finishes his March to the Sea and captures Savannah, GA. -
Capital is Captured
The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia falls or is captured by the Union army. -
Surrender
The Confederacy and Gen. Robert E, Lee surreder to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, VA. -
Lincoln Dies
Presdient Lincoln dies and Vice Presdient Andrew Johnson takes over as Presdient of the U.S.
