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The Confederate States of American is formed with Jefferson Davies as president.
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Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president.
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The South attacks Fort Sumpter, South Carolina and that starts the war.
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President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Blockade against southern ports.
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Irvin McDowell suffers a defeat at Bull Run twenty-five miles south of Washington.
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Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as commander of the Department of the Potamic
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President Lincoln has a diplomatic crisis as two confederate officials sail toward England and then are seized by the U.S. Navy.
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President Lincoln issues a General War order No.1 called for all naval and land forces to begin a general advance by George Washington's birthday.
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President Lincoln's son died, probably because of the polluted water at the White house. He was eleven years old.
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Confederate launches a surprise attack on General Ulysses S. Grant't unprepared troops in front of Richmond and defeats them.
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The Battle of Seven Pines as General Joseph E. Johnson's army attacks McClellan's troops in front of Richmond and defeats them.
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The Seven Days Battle as Lee attacks McClellan near Richmond with very heavy losses for both armies.
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75,000 Federals under General John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under General Stonewall Jackson and General James Longstreet as the Second Battle of Bull Run,
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General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and superior Union Forces. Many end up dead, wounded, or missing.
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Abraham Lincoln issues the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves.
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The president replaces McClellan with General Ambrose E. Burnside as the new Commander of the Army of the Potomac.
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The Potomac army under General Burnside suffers defeat at Fredricksburg in Virginia.
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President Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves held by the Confederates and emphasizing all black soldiers in the Union Army.
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General Grant is placed in command for the Army of the West with orders to capture Vicksburg.
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Between May 1-4, the Union Army under General Hooker is defeated by Lee's smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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Stonewall Jackson dies from his wounds with the South suffering a huge blowout.
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July 1-3rd, the tide of the war turn against South as the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of the Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
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September 19/20, Confederate victory by General Bragg's army of Tennessee at Chickamauga which leaves General William's Union Army of the Cumberland trapped in Chattanooga, Tenessee.
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November 23-25th, The rebel seige of Chattanoogs ends as Union forces under General Grant defeat the army of General Braxton Bragg.
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President Lincoln appoints General Grant to command all armies of the United States
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A mistake by General Grant results in around 7,000 casualties in 20 minutes during an offensive against fortified Rebels at Cold Harbor in Virginia.
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In Atlanta, General Sherman's force battles the Rebels under the command of General John replaced by Johnston.
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Sherman began a March to Sea after destroying Atlanta's warehouse's and railroad facilities.
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Sherman reaches Savannah in Georgia leaving behind a path of destruction from all the way Atlanta.
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The U.S Congress approved The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
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Lincoln and his wife Mary go to a play at Ford's theater and then John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln in the head.
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Lincoln is layed to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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The Thirteenth Amendment is finally passed by Congress, Slavery is finally abolished.
