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First Conscription Act
This act provides that every able-bodied white male citizen of the age of 18 years and under the age of 45 be enrolled in the militia. -
The Confederate States of America
This was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern slave states that had declared their secession from the United States. -
Abraham Lincoln elected presiden
He led his counrtry through the Civil War. He also ended slavery and promoted economic and financial modernization. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
This was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. -
First Battle of Bull Run
Also known as First Manassas. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. -
Trent Affairs
It was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. -
Battle of Shiloh
Confederate forced launched a surprise attack. The Confederates achieved considerable success on the first day, but were ultimately defeated on the second day -
Union Captures New Orleans
This capture of the largest Confederate city was a major turning point and an incident of international importance. -
Seven Days Battle
The Seven Days Battles was a series of six major battles over the seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, near Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War. -
Battle of Antietam
It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties on both sides. -
Batlle of Fredericksberg
The Union army's futile frontal assaults on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War, with Union casualties more than twice as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates -
Emancapation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at that time. -
Siege of Vicksburg
was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. -
West Virginia becomes a State
West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions and , broke away from Virginia during the American Civil War. The new state was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key Civil War border state. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point. -
Gettysberg Address
he Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the most well-known speeches in United States history. -
Battle of Spotsylvania
was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Cold Harbor
It was one of the final battles of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, and is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles. Thousands of Union soldiers were killed or wounded in a hopeless frontal assault against the fortified positions of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's army. -
Siege of Petersburg
Numerous raids were conducted and battles fought in attempts to cut off the railroad supply lines through Petersburg to Richmond, and many of these caused the lengthening of the trench lines, overloading dwindling Confederate resources. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, as the American Civil War was drawing to a close.