Civil War

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  • Missouri Compromise

  • Comrpomie of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Law

  • Uncle Tom;s Cabin

  • Kansas-Neb. Act

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • Lincoln / Douglas Debates

  • John Brown @ Harper's Ferry

  • Electon of Lincoln

  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

    South Carolina secedes from the Union

  • Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as 16th president

    Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as 16th president

  • Battle of Big Bethel

    the first land battle of the war in Virginia

  • Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky

    The Union victory weakened the Confederate hold on the state

  • Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as president of the Confederate States of America

  • Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to the Union Army

    Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to the Union Army

    The capture of Vicksburg gives the Union complete control of the Mississippi River

  • Second assault on Battery Wagner, South Carolina

  • Dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery at Gettysburg

    Dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery at Gettysburg

    Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
  • Escape from Libby Prison, Richmond

    Escape from Libby Prison, Richmond

  • First successful submarine attack of the Civil War

  • Battle of Sabine Crossroads or Mansfield, Louisiana

    Battle of Sabine Crossroads or Mansfield, Louisiana

    the first major battle of the Red River Campaign in Louisiana

  • Battle of Yellow Tavern

  • Battle of Resaca, Georgia

    General Sherman's armies are blocked at Resaca by General Johnston's Army of Tennessee

  • Abraham Lincoln is nominated by his party for a second term as president

  • Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Mississippi

    Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest attacks and routs the Union command under General Samuel Sturgis

  • The USS Kearsarge sinks the Confederate raider CSS ALabama near Cherbourg, France

  • Battle of Monocacy, Maryland

    Battle of Monocacy, Maryland

  • General John Bell Hood replaces General Joseph Johnston as commander of the Army of Tennessee

  • Sherman's Army occupeies Fayetteville, North Carolina

    Sherman's Army occupeies Fayetteville, North Carolina

  • Union troops occupy Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia

  • The Civil War oficially ends

    General Simon Bolivar Buckner enters into terms for surrender of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, which are agreed to on June 2nd, 1865.