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The confederate states of america is formed when Jefferson Davis a West Point graduate and former U.S Army officer, as president
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Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States during the Civil War.
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The war began at fort Sumter
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At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins.
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The union has 21 states with over 20 million people and the confederates had 9 million soldiers and 4 million
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The Union Army under Gen. Irvin McDowell suffers a loss at Bull Run about 25 miles southwest of Washington The Confederate Gen. Thomas J. Jackson earns the nickname "Stonewall" as his resists to union attacks. That is when President Lincoln realizes the war will be long.
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President Lincoln appoints George B, McClellan as the commander of the department of the Potomac.
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Grant in Tennessee, capturing fort Henry and ten days late capturing fort do nelson. Grant earns the nickname Unconditional Surrender grant.
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Lincoln is struck with grief as his eleven-year-old son, Willie, dies from fever caused by polluted drinking water in the white house.
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The confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grants unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee river results in a bitter struggle with over 13,000 Union killed and wounded and over 10,000 confederates. The president is then pressured to relieve grant but resists, he says "I can't spare this man; he fights," Lincoln says.
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President Lincoln issues the final emancipation proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by confederates and emphasizes the enlisting of black soldiers in the union army the union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery.
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President Lincoln was shot in a theater by john wiles
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The Nation is reunited as the civil war ends over 620,000 Americans died in the war with disease and begin killed in war only about 50,000 survivors return home.
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December 6, 1865 the thirteenth amendment to the united states constitution passed by congress on January 31 1865 is finally ratified slavery is abolished
