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Abraham Lincoln, who had declared "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free..." is elected president, first republican
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South Carolina secedes from the Union. Followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
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South Carolina representatives withdraw from the U. S. House.
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Lincoln's opposition to a section of the Crittenden Compromise becomes public, ending the proposal's potential as a possible solution
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Charleston is notified by telegraph that a man of war with troops is on the way.
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At a convention in Montgomery, Alabama, the seven seceding states created the Confederate Constitution,Jefferson Davis was named provisional president of the Confederacy until elections could be held.
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Confedaracy attacked the fortand siezed it.
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First land engagement of the Civil War between American and Confederate forces.
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Residents of the western counties of Virginia did not wish to secede along with the rest of the state. This section of Virginia was admitted into the Union as the state of West Virginia.
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Scott ordered General Irvin McDowell to advance on Confederate troops stationed at Manassas Junction, Virginia. It was a southern victory, which was successful.
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ictory for Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Tennessee, capturing Fort Henry, and ten days later Fort Donelson
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Confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River r with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates.
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the Seven Days Battles as Lee attacks McClellan near Richmond, McClellan than gave up and went back to washington.
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he bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland. 26,000 men missing and dead. lee gives in to virgina.
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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves issued by President Lincoln.
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Lincoln writes the final Emancipation Proclamtion freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates and wants black soliers to join the army (union army.)
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South as the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
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Last confedrate strong hold on the mississsippi river. surrenders to Gen. Grant and the Army of the West after a six weeks
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The president meets with abolitionist Frederick Douglass who wants equality for "nergo freedom."
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President Lincoln delivers a two minute Gettysburg Address at a ceremony, saying its a National Cemetery.
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Grant ignored the losses in the Battle of the Wilderness and ordered Meade to move on toward Spotsylvania Court House.
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Grant kept moving toward Lee's army after Spotsylvania. They fought the Southern army at Cold Harbor in an advance upon Richmond. after many deaths they called the attack off.
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A mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union Deaths in twenty minutes; against fortified Rebels at Cold Harbor in Virginia.
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Atlanta is captured by Sherman's Army. Helps President win the re election.
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Lincoln defeated, Democrat George B. McClellan. He gets 55 percent of the popular vote.
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The U.S. Congress approves the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, to abolish slavery. It gets submitted to the sattes for ratification.
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The last offensive for Lee's Army of Northern Virginia begins with an attack on the center of Grant's forces at Petersburg. It only last 4 hours.
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Lincoln was shot at movie theater by john wilkes booth.
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Remaning condeferates surrender. Over 620,000 Americans died in the war, with disease killing twice as many as those lost in battle.
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John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed at a tobacco barn.
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The last issue of the abolitionist magazine The Liberator is published.
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Texas repeals the actions of the Secessionist Convention
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President Johnson vetos the Civil Rights Act of 1866 on the grounds that it was unconstitutional
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The United States declares that a state of peace exists with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
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congress passes civil rights act which declares that if yu are born in the united states, you are a citizen of the united states.
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Negros in washington d.c gain the right to vote.
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Federal army restores military rule to Mississippi (2nd Reconstruction).
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Virginia rejects thousand of votes cast by Negroes, who were granted universal suffrage under the Reconstruction Act.
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Congress passed a bill admitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas. refused to ratify the 14th ad. they were refused to join the union.
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Ulysses S. Grant becomes ad interim Secretary of War
