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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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Republican President Abraham Lincoln is elected
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South Carolina becomes the first state to secedes
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Southern states come together to form
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President is sworn into office
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The start of the civil war when the confederacy bombarded Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina.
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Northern response to the siege of Fort Sumter, fought at a small meandering stream of the Potomac River
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The confederacy chooses Jefferson Davis to lead them politically
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First battle of iron ships. USS Monitor and the CSS Merrimack fire at each other until the United States Naval ship Monitor
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The Confederate surprise attacks the Union army in Southwestern Tennessee. The Union army regrouped after receiving reinforcements and overtook vantage points that gave them the victory.
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The Union navy captures New Orleans which is seen as the most devastating loose of a vantage point by the Confederate forces.
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Much larger and more brutal than the first Battle of the Bull Run. The Confederate and Union forces met in Virginia where there was an initial stalemate until General Robert E. Lee defeated the Union Army lead by Mjor General John Pope.
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Seen as one of the bloodiest battles in American history which ended in a Union victory.
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A presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln
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Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee converged on Vicksburg on the Mississippi River, investing the city and trapping the Confederate army.
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Considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War.
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Violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as 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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Volunteer infantryman made completely of colored soldiers.
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Most famous speech ever given by President Abraham Lincoln. He mourns the lose of Union soldiers while giving the speech in a Union cemetary.
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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,
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The first battle of 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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A battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Lincoln is re-elected as President.
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The Union General William Sherman arrives in Georgia with an army.
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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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A speech by Lincoln given right before the end of the Civil War and only month before he is assassinated.
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The army of General William Sherman occupies a large and key city in NC.
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The battle where the Confederate army is defeated and General Robert E. Lee surrenders.
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Lincoln is assassinated while he attends a theater showing.
