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Lincoln is elected president. Receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.
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The beggining of the Civil War.
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President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports. The blockade limits the ability of the South to stay well supplied in its war against the North
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The Union Army suffers a defeat. This is when Lincoln realizes the war will be very very long.
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The battle of the Union and Confederate Armies at Sea
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Confederate surprise attack the Union. Results in 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more men than in all previous American wars combined.
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Lee attacks McClellan. Heavy losses for both armies.
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Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by Union forces. By nightfall 26,000 men are dead, wounded, or missing.
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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves issued by President Lincoln.
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Lee invades the North. The Union Army pursues Lee.
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President Lincoln issues the last Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates. The war to preserve the Union now becomes a struggle for the abolition of slavery.
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The Union Army under Gen. Hooker is decisively defeated by Lee's smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia as a result of Lee's tactics. Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is mortally wounded by his own soldiers. Hooker retreats. Union losses are 17,000 killed, wounded and missing out of 130,000. The Confederates, 13, 000 out of 60,000.
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The tide of war turns against the South as the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg
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Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. With the Union now in control of the Mississippi, the Confederacy is effectively split in two, cut off from its western allies.
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Lincoln delivers a two minute Gettysburg Address at a ceremony dedicating the Battlefield as a National Cemetery.
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Union forces under Grant defeat the siege army of Gen. Braxton Bragg.
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President Lincoln appoints Gen. Grant to command all of the armies of the United States.
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Atlanta is captured by Sherman's Army. This win helps President Lincoln's bid for re-election.
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Abraham Lincoln is re-elected president. Lincoln carries all but three states with 55 percent of the popular vote and 212 of 233 electoral votes.
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they begin a March to the Sea. President Lincoln on advice from Grant approved the idea.
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Sherman reaches Savannah in Georgia leaving behind a 300 mile long path of destruction 60 miles wide all the way from Atlanta
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The U.S. Congress approves the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, to abolish slavery.
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Inauguration ceremonies for President Lincoln in Washington.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
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John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head.
