Civil War

  • Harper's Ferry

    October 16-18, 1859
  • Abraham Lincoln is elected President

  • Texas secedes

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

  • First Battle at Bull Run

  • Emancipation Proclimation issued

  • Battle of Shiloh

    April 6-7, 1862
  • Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks)

    May 31-June 1, 1862
  • The Seven Days' Battle

    June 25-July1, 1862
  • Battle at Antietam

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

    December 11-15, 1862
  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    April 30-May 6, 1863
  • Battle at Vicksburg

    May 8-July 4, 1863
  • Battle at Gettysburg

    July 1-3, 1863
  • Battle at Sabine Pass

  • Battle of Chattanooga

    November 23-25, 1863
  • General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign

    May-September 2, 1864
  • Battle of Spotsyvania

    May 8-21, 1864
  • Battle of Cold Harbor

    May 13-June 12, 1864
  • Abraham Lincoln is re-elected President

  • General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • President Lincoln's assassination

  • Battle at Palmito Ranch

    May 12-13, 1865