Civil War

By Logan Arienta

  • Republican Party is formed

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

  • President Lincoln elected president

  • South Carolina succession

  • Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter

  • First Battle of Bull Run is fought

  • Jefferson Davis Election

  • The Merrimac and the Monitor fight of the Virginia coast

  • Battle of Shiloh

    Ended: April 7, 1862

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

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

    Ended December 15,1862

  • Emancipation Proclamation is announced

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    Ended: May 6, 1863

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Ended July 3,1863

  • Confederates surrender at Vicksburg

  • New York City draft riots

    Ended: July 16, 1863

  • Lincoln suspends habeas corpus

  • Gettysburg Address

  • Atlanta is captured

  • Abraham Lincoln's re-election

  • Sherman begins his March to the Sea

  • Congress passes the 13th Amendment

  • Freedman’s Bureau is created

  • Lincoln gives his second inaugural address

  • Richmond falls to the Union Army

  • Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy

  • Presidents Lincoln's Assassination

  • John Wilkes Booth is killed

  • Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox

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