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President Lincoln announced a blockade of all confederate ports.
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Union troops commanded by General Irvin McDowell attacked a smaller confederate force led by General P.G.T. Beauregard.
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The Confederate Congress passed a draft that required able-bodied white men between ages 18-35 to serve for three years.
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The battles for the rivers began including when the Union Forces captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee River.
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The Virginia attacked Union Ships in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Union naval forces under David Farragut captured New Orleans, Louisiana, the largest city in the South.
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Lincoln announced that he would issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Harriet Tubman led a mission that freed many enslaved people and disrupted Southern supply lines.
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The Emancipation Proclamation freed all the enslaved people in Rebel-Held Territory.
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Robert E. Lee met Union Forces led by General Joseph Hooker in the battle of Chancellorsville.
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Union Forces Fully surrounded the South
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President Lincoln put General Grant in charge of all the Union Armies.
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Robert E. Lee surrendered and the war ended
