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Abraham Lincoln delivers his Cooper Union speech
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The Pony Express could now deliver a letter faster then ever before. It could run more than 1,800 miles in 10 days and stretched between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California.
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The Paiute War begin with the Northern Paiutes raiding Williams Station in Utahs territory
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The U.S. Constitutional Union Party holds its convention and nominates John Bell for president.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected as the Republicans party nominee for the President of the United States.
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The Paiute War ends. It is ended by an informal ceasefire.
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The Stones Prairie Riot takes place in Illinois between the Republicans and are Democratic supporters of Stephen A. Douglas
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Abraham Lincoln wins Presidency against John C. Breckenridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell. He becomes the 16th President of the United States
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Senator John J. Crittenden establishes the Crittenden Compromise to help try and resolve the U.S. secession issue.
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South Carolina becomes the first state to take the big step and leave the Union.
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Delaware decides not to secede from the Union
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Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union
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Florida secede from the Union
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Alabama secedes from the Union
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Georgia secedes from the Union
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Louisiana secedes from the Union
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Texas secedes from the Union
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Virginia secedes from the Union
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Arkansas secedes from the Union
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North Carolina secedes from the Union
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Tennessee secedes from the Union
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U.S. General Grant invades Tenn. In just 11 days grant forces capture 2 forts. This is where Grant earns his nickname "Unconditional Surrender".
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Confederates are shut out of Missouri
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Battle of Yorktown begins when Union forces under General McClellan closes in on the Confederate capital of Richmond, VA
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Grant brings his troops near a church named Shiloh in Tennessee. Grant does not send out scouts and the Confederate surprise him early. He winds up losing 1/4th of the men and this battle shows the importance of scouts.
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In the Spring of 1862 McClellan finally on the move.
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The Seven Days Battle lasted from June 25th until July 1, 1862. Lee had less men and lost more men than the North. However he did still unnerve McClellan enough to retreat.
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Confederate side is successful . Confederate side brings 22,000 more men.
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Bloodiest single day battle, more than 26,000 casualties. 500 men died in less than 10 minuets. Lincoln fires McClellan for having 'the slows'.
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Burnside tried to capture confederate zone Maryes Heights under General Lee's direction
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This battle resulted in another Confederate victory outnumbered two to one, resulted in six times as many Union casualties.
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Freed slaves in states in the South. Discouraged G.B. and France from aiding the south. In addition it allowed blacks to enlist in the Union army.
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General John McClernand and Admiral David Nixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
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Union cavalrymen are ambushed while crossing the Tickfaw River in Mississippi.
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Union General Grant defeats Confederate General Johnson opening the way for the Siege of Vicksburg.
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West Virginia becomes the 35th state to be admitted into the U.S.
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Union is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester Virginia.
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Both sides meet coincidentally on a farm in Pennsylvania. Union leader John Buford told his men to take high ground while the Rebels led by A.P. Hill rain into Buford in search for shoes and Lee.
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Rebels push through the Union troops who mistakenly left Little Round Top unguarded. Confederates have the chance to take the high ground. Josh L. Chamberlain stops the rebels from Devils Den
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Longstreet orders his troops to advance but are stopped and severly hurt by the Union. Union troops never countered attacked.
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Irish immigrants vs the Republican war policies. 4 days of rioting and lynching in the streets of NY.
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Confederate troops led by General Longstreet unsuccessfully attack Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside.
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Union suffers one one of its costliest defeats at the Battle of Olustee near Lake City, Florida.
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The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison in Andersonville Georgia.
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Lincoln appoints Grant commander in chief of all Union armies.
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Confederate Troops under General Nathan Bedford Forrest shot more than 200 prisoners and some whites who begged for their lives.
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4,000 troops die in an inconclusive engagement which lasts from May 8-21.
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Grant pulls his troops from their position at Cold Harbor and moves South.
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Confederate troops defeat Union forces, near Kennesaw, Georgia.
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Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William. T Sherman
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Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Sherman
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Troops under the command of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest bombard a Union supply base with artillery, and destroy millions of dollars worth of material.
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Union General Sherman burns Atlanta and starts to move south, living off the land, and causing extensive devastation to crops and mills.
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Confederate States of America agree to use African American troops.
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Confederate General Lee begins his final offense.
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Lee and Grant meet at Appomattox Court House to draw terms of surrender.
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John Wilkes Booth shots Lincoln in the back of the head and kills him. There are still many conspiracy theories behind the assassination.
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After being shot the day before Lincoln dies early in the morning on the 15th and Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes 17th President of the U.S.
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Union cavarly corner John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia Barn and cavalry Boston Corbett shoots the assassin dead.
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Jefferson Davis is captured by the Union Army near Irwinville Georgia.
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Jefferson Davis meets with his Confederate Cabinet for the last time.
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U.S. Secret Service is founded
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Confederate captain James Waddell surrenders the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah to the British at Liverpool
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13th Amendment added to the Constitution ratified by three-quarters of the states.
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New Freedman's Bureau bill passed by Congress. President Andrew Johnson vetoes the bill that authorized military trial for those accused of "depriving Negroes of the Civil Rights" on the same day
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The United States declares that a state of peace exists with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
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Congress overrides President Andrew Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Act
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Thirty-ninth Congress approves the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
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New Hampshire ratifies the 14th Amendment
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Tennessee ratifies the 14th Amendment. This quick ratification meant Tennessee would not suffer under 2nd Reconstruction
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Congress establishes "general of the armies" and Ulysses S. Grant is immediately promoted to 4-star general and put in this position.
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Congress establishes "general of the armies" and Ulysses S. Grant is immediately promoted to 4-star general and put in this position.
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The U. S. Secret Service begins an investigation into the Ku Klux Klan
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NJ Ratifies the 14th Amendment
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Blacks in Washington D. C. gain the right to vote in a bill passed over President Andrew Johnson's veto
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New York ratifies the 14th Amendment
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Louisiana rejects the 14th Amendment
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Nebraska becomes a state
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William P. Seward signs a treaty with Russia buying Alaska for 2 cents an acre.
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Senate ratifies treaty purchasing Alaska
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Congress passes a bill admitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union because they ratified the 14th Amendment.
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Edwin Stanton suspended by President Andrew Johnson
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Ulysses S. Grant becomes ad interim Secretary of War
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Russia turns over Alaska to the United States
