Civil War

By Mnick
  • Abraham Lincoln Becomes President

    Abraham Lincoln Becomes President

    Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Lincoln had two other children. An older sister and a younger brother who died an infant. When young Abraham was 9 years old his mother died of tremetol (milk sickness) at age 34. This was devastating to him. A few months after Nancy's death Thomas married Sarah Bush Johnston, a Kentucky widow with three children of her own. Though the parents were most likely illiterate, Sarah encoura
  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

    South Carolina secedes from the Union

  • Mississippii secedes from the Union

    Mississippii secedes from the Union

  • Florida secedes from the Union

    Florida secedes from the Union

  • Alabama secedes from the Union

    Alabama secedes from the Union

  • Georgia secedes from the Union

    Georgia secedes from the Union

  • Louisiana secedes from the Union

    Louisiana secedes from the Union

  • Texas secedes from the Union

    Texas secedes from the Union

  • Confederate Constitutioin adopted

    Confederate Constitutioin adopted

  • Jefferson davis inaugurated as president of the confederacy

    Jefferson davis inaugurated as president of the confederacy

  • Civil War Starts

    Civil War Starts

  • Virginia secedes from the Union

    Virginia secedes from the Union

  • arkansas secedes from the union

    arkansas secedes from the union

  • Tennessee secedes from the Union

    Tennessee secedes from the Union

  • North Carolina secedes from the Union

    North Carolina secedes from the Union

  • Lincoln Requests an army

    Lincoln Requests an army

  • First battle of bull run

    First battle of bull run

  • battle of chesapeake bay

    battle of chesapeake bay

    Confederate Ironclad USS Merrimack Battles Union USS Monitor
  • battle of Shiloh

    battle of Shiloh

  • Robert E Lee Comands Confederate army

    Robert E Lee Comands Confederate army

    Of Northern Virginia after Josef E Johnson is wounded
  • Period: to

    Seven Day Battle

    Seven day battle outside Richmond virginia between General Robert E Lee and George McClellan. The Union Army was forced to retreat.
  • Second battle of bull run

    Second battle of bull run

  • battle of antietam

    battle of antietam

  • emancipation proclomation

    emancipation proclomation

  • Military draft signed

    Military draft signed

  • battle of chancellorsville

    battle of chancellorsville

  • Stonewell Jackson Dies

    Stonewell Jackson Dies

  • battle of gettysburg

    battle of gettysburg

  • draft riot in new york city

    draft riot in new york city

  • battle of chickamauga

    battle of chickamauga

  • Gettysburg address

    Gettysburg address

  • battle of chattanooga

    battle of chattanooga

    to november 25th
  • Ulysses S Grant becomes general in cheif of the Union Armies

    Ulysses S Grant becomes general in cheif of the Union Armies

  • battle of the wilderness

    battle of the wilderness

  • battle of cold harbor

    battle of cold harbor

  • siege of petersburg

    siege of petersburg

  • confederacy approves enlistment of slaves for freedom

    confederacy approves enlistment of slaves for freedom

  • battle of five forks

    battle of five forks

  • siege of petersburg ends

    siege of petersburg ends

  • lee surrendors the army

    lee surrendors the army

    of northern virgina to grant at appomattox court house
  • Lincoln was assasinated by James Wilkes Booth

    Lincoln was assasinated by James Wilkes Booth

  • End of the Civil War by Declaration

    End of the Civil War by Declaration

  • jefferson Davis is Captured

    jefferson Davis is Captured

  • Slavery abolished

    Slavery abolished