Civil War

By mattluke123

  • South Carolina votes to secede from the United States

    The victory of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election triggered cries for disunion across the slaveholding South.

  • Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

    Lincoln pledged to not interfere with the institution of slavery and also pledged to suspend the activities of the federal government in areas of hostility.

  • Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter

    President Abraham Lincoln plans to resupply the fort, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard bombed Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, kicking off the battle of Fort Sumter.

  • Lincoln suspends habeas corpus

  • Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy

  • First Battle of Bull Run is fought

  • Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederacy

  • Robert E. Lee is named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia

  • The Merrimac and the Monitor fight of the Virginia coast

  • Battle of Shiloh

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

  • Emancipation Proclamation is announced

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Confederates surrender at Vicksburg

  • New York City Draft Riots

  • Lincoln gives his Gettysburg Address

  • Atlanta is captured

  • Abraham Lincoln defeats George McClellan to win re-election

  • Sherman begins his March to the Sea

  • Congress passes the 13th Amendment

  • Freedmen's Bureau is created

  • Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

  • Richmond falls to the Union Army

  • Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox

  • President Lincoln assassinated

  • John Wilkes Booth is killed