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The secession of South Carolina was followed by 6 more states including Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Flordia, Louisiana and Texas.And by the threatening of secession four more states; Virginia, Arkansa, Tennesse, and North Carolina.
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When Lincoln's predessesor James Buchanan refused to surrender Southen forts to the seceding states the South seized them. Location, Fort Sumter, North Carolina.
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Lincoln was elected president May 4. President Lincoln said he was not planning on ending slavery in states who currently had it. He also stated he did not accept Secession.
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Abraham Licoln is sworn in as the 16th President of The United States of America.
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Civil War begins with shots fired at Fort Sumpter. Eventually was surrendered to South Carolina.
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General Robert E. Lee resigns his commision in the U.S Army. He said "I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children."
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General Winfield Scott orders General Irvin Mcdowell to attack Confederate forces stationed in Virginia and suffers a defeat.
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McDowell's attack was a success.
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President Lincoln issures General War order 1. This calling all United States Land & Naval forces to prepare.
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Confederate suprise attack on General Ulysses S. Grants unprepared troops on the Tennesse River. This ends with 13,000 dead and wounded Union Soilders and 10,000 wounded & dead Confederate soilders.
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72,000 Federal soilders Under General Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederate soilders under order of General Stonewall Jackson at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Northern Virginia.
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Emancipation Proclamtion freeing slaves issued by President Lincoln.
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Half Virgina was admitted to the Union as the state of West Virgina.
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President Lincoln issues the finally Proclamtion freeing all slaves held by the Confederate. This also helped emphasize the number of Black soilders in the Union Army.
