• confederacy is formed

  • 1st battle of bull run

  • Military Draft

  • Monitor battles Merrimack

  • New Orleans falls to the Union

  • Lee becomes comander

  • Batlle of Antieam

  • Period: to

    battle of Fredericksburg

  • signing of the Emancipation Proclamation

  • battle of Chancellorsville

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Attack on Ft. Wagner

  • Quantrill burns Lawrence

  • Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Adress

  • Grant takes supreme command of the union army

  • Period: to

    Battle of Vicksburg

  • Period: to

    Battle of Cold Harbor

  • Sherman burns Atlanta

  • Lincoln wins re-election

  • Sherman reaches the sea

  • the thirteenth amendment is ratified abolishing all slavery

  • Lincoln second Inaugural speech

  • Richmond falls to the union army

  • Appomattox Court House

  • Lincoln is assassinated