Civil War History

By Jose_Zapata

  • Republican Party is formed

  • Abraham Lincoln elected president

  • South Carolina votes to secede from the United States

  • Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy

  • Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter

  • First Battle of Bull Run is fought

  • Robert E. Lee is named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

  • Emancipation Proclamation is announced

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Lincoln gives his Gettysburg Address

  • Abraham Lincoln defeats George McClellan to win re-election

  • President Lincoln assassinated

  • John Wilkes Booth is killed

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