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The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States, and at the end Lincoln on 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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Representatives from the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to formally establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America
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Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was elected the Confederacy's first president
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Part of his taking of the oath of office for his first term as the sixteenth President of the United States
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The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, this started the American Civil War
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The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas, was fought in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C
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The major significance of the battle is that it was the first meeting in combat of ironclad warships, The Confederate fleet consisted of the ironclad ram Virginia and several supporting vessels
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The Battle of Shiloh was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought in southwestern Tennessee
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Battle of New Orleans, naval action by Union forces seeking to capture the city during the American Civil War, The permanent loss of New Orleans was considered one of the worst disasters suffered by the Confederacy in the western theatre of the war
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The Second Battle of Bull Run or Battle of Second Manassas was fought in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the American Civil War
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The Battle of Antietam also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac
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The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln
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The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations.
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The Battle of Gettysburg is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania
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The New York City draft riots, known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
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The 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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The Lawrence massacre also known as Quantrill's raid was an attack during the American Civil War, by the Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas
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The Gettysburg Address is a speech by 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, it didn't change the course of the Civil War, but by becoming the first combat submarine to sink an enemy warship, it altered naval warfare forever
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The Battle of the Wilderness was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War
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The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia
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Northern voters overwhelmingly endorse the leadership and policies of President Abraham Lincoln when they elect him to a second term. With his re-election, any hope for a negotiated settlement with the Confederacy vanished.
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In his own words, Sherman intended to “make Georgia howl,” a plan that was ... Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of the Union armies.
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The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was a successful assault by the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina, near the end of the American Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address was during the final days of the Civil War and only a month before he was assassinated
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The Union Army captured and destroyed the Confederate arsenal, a building where weapons were made and stored, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War, Decisive Union victory:, Surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to the Federal Army of the Potomac
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C
