Civil War Lecture Discussion Timeline

By rhiwilson

  • 1st Bull Run

  • Lincoln picks Henry Halleck to be General in Chief

  • McClellan wins a series of small victories

  • Winfield Scott resigns

  • McClellan disrespects Lincoln by making him wait outside before his meeting.

  • Jefferson Davis is elected

  • Period: to

    Union army grows drastically, from 50,000 to 168,000

  • Lincoln invites McClellan to the White House

  • Robert E. Lee elevated as Commander of the Confederate Army in Northern Virginia

  • Meade is the overall commander of the North

  • Grant replaced Halleck