Civil War

By roman6298

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Fugutive Slave Law

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Kansas-Neb Act

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • Unlce Tom's Cabin

  • Lincoln Douglas Debates

  • John Brown @ Harpers ferry

  • Election of Lincoln

  • Lincoln Elected

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • The Confederate States of America is formed

    The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president.

  • Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as 16th President

  • President Lincoln issues a Proclamation

    President Lincoln issues a Proclamation calling for 75,000 militiamen, and summoning a special session of Congress for July 4.

  • Virginia secedes from the Union

  • President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports.

  • Robert E. Lee resigns his commission

  • President Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as Commander

  • President Lincoln revokes Gen. John C. Frémont's unauthorized military proclamation

  • President Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1 calling

  • President Lincoln is struck with grief as his beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, dies

  • The Battle of Seven Pines

  • The Seven Days Battles as Lee attacks McClellan near Richmond

  • - After four months as his own general-in-chief, President Lincoln hands over the task

  • Lee invades the North with 50,000 Confederates

  • Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves issued by President Lincoln.

  • The president appoints Gen. Joseph (Fighting Joe) Hooker as Commander of the Army of the Potomac, replacing Burnside.

  • Gen. Grant is placed in command of the Army of the West, with orders to capture Vicksburg

  • Gen. Lee with 75,000 Confederates launches his second invasion of the North,

  • The tide of war turns against the South

  • Anti-draft riots in New York City

  • The president meets with abolitionist Frederick Douglass

  • The president appoints Gen. Grant to command all operations in the western theater.

  • President Lincoln delivers a two minute Gettysburg Address

  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

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