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Was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States
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Lincoln won the election
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States
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The First Battle of Fort Fisher was a naval siege in the American Civil War, when the Union tried to capture the fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina
The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was a successful assault by the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps -
Representatives from the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to formally establish a unified government
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As part of his taking of oath of office for his first term
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The return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
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Union forces waged a campaign to the the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg
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Also known as the First Battle of Manassas
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The first meeting in combat of ironclad warships
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Confederate surprise attack backfires when the union holds firm at the "Hornets Nest"
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Naval action by Union forces seeking to capture the city
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Much larger in scale and in the number of casualties
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Bloodiest single day in American history ends in a Union victory that bolsters President Lincolns ability to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
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Was a statement and presidential order mandated by President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln
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Considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War
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New laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War, created five days of mayhem and bloodshed
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One of the first official black units in the U.S. armed forces
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An attack during the Civil War by the Quadrilles Raiders
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A speech by the U.S President Abraham Lincoln, and one of the best known speeches in American history
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When the hand-cranked Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley torpedoed the mighty USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor
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the opening engagement of the Overland Campaign during the American Civil War
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A battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, won his bid for a second term
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Union General William T. Sherman completes his March to the Sea when he arrives in front of Savannah, Georgia.
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Delivered during the final days of the Civil War and only a month before he was assassinated.
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03The Union Army captured and destroyed the Confederate arsenal, a building where weapons were made and stored, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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Was one of the last battles of the American Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth
