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New President; New Nation
Abraham Lincoln was elected as president and he promised to put an end to slavery -
The Nation starts to tear apart
- South Carolina secedes from the Union. Followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
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New President admitted
Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as president -
The war begins
Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor -
First battle comes to an end
The Union surrenders Forst Sumter without a single death -
States continue to secede
Arkansas and North Carolina secede -
Bull run
The first major battle of the Civil war occurs, the Union charged the Confederates and they stood there ground and forced the Union to retreat -
Fort Henry
Victory for Ulysses S. Grant in Tennessee, capturing Fort Henry, and ten days later Fort Donelson. Grant earns the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" -
Shiloh
Confederate surprise attack Union troops at Shiloh -
Second Battle of Bull Run
75,000 Federals under General John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under General Stonewall Jackson -
Antietam
The bloodiest day in U.S. military history, by night fall 26,000 men are dead, wounded, or missing -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln passed this law that freed all slaves -
Chancellorsville
The Union Army under Hooker is decisively defeated by Lee's much smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia as a result of Lee's brilliant and daring tactics. -
Gettysburg
The tide of war turns against the South as the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. -
Chickamauga
A decisive Confederate victory by Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga leaves William Rosecrans' Union Army of the Cumberland trapped in Chattanooga -
Gettysburg Adress
President Lincoln delivers a two minute Gettysburg Address at a ceremony dedicating the Battlefield as a National Cemetery. -
Chattanooga
The Rebel siege of Chattanooga ends as Union forces under Grant defeat the siege army of Gen. Braxton Bragg -
Cold Harbor
costly mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties in twenty minutes during an offensive against fortified Rebels at Cold Harbor in Virginia -
Atlanta is ours!
Atlanta is captured by Sherman's Army -
Lincoln President again
aham Lincoln is re-elected president, defeating Democrat George B. McClellan. Lincoln carries all but three states with 55 percent of the popular vote and 212 of 233 electoral votes -
March to the Sea
Sherman, with 62,000 men begins a March to the Sea and they destroy everything in their path -
Thirteenth Admendment
Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolishes slavery throughout the United States. -
Lincoln inaugurated
Lincoln is inaugurated as President for a second term. -
Richmond has fallen
Union troops occupy RIchmond, the Confederates capital -
Lee surrenders
Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox. -
Lincold dead
John Wilkes Booth shoots President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater; Secretary of State William H. Seward is stabbed and wounded in an assassination attempt inside his Washington home. -
Peace throughout America
US declears peace with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia -
Civil Rights act
Congress passes Civil Rights Act -
KKK
The Klu Klux Klan is established -
US Declares peace
US finally declares peace with Texas -
Blacks can now vote
Congress passed law, Blacks can now vote in the District of Columbia -
New state
Nebreska becomes a state -
Alaska
US buys Alaska from Russia -
Back into the Union
Congress pass a bill that allowed Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union.
