Civil War

  • Abraham Lincoln inaugurated

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

  • Virginia Secedes

  • 1st Battle of Bull Run

  • McClellan Returns to Washington after the Peninsula

  • Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac

  • Battle of Shiloh

  • 2nd Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

  • Emancipation Proclamation Takes Effect

  • Battle of Chancerllorsville

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Surrender of Vicksburg

  • Battle at Fort Wagner

  • Lincoln Delivers Gettysburg Address

  • Grant Displays Fighting style at Cold Harbor

  • Sherman Set out for the Sea

  • Sherman Reaches Savannah

  • Lincoln Delivers 2nd Inaugural Address

  • Richmond, the Confederate capital, Falls

  • Robert E. Lee Surenders Commission

  • Surrender at Appomattox