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lincoln elected
The United States presidential election of 1860 was a quadrennial election, held on November 6, 1860, for the office of President of the United States and the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
The nation had been divided throughout the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. In 1860, these issues finally came to a head. As a result of conflicting regional interests, the Democratic Party broke into Northern and Southern f -
battle of ft. sumter
On April 10, 1861, Brig. Gen. Beauregard, in command of the provisional Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina, demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Garrison commander Anderson refused. On April 12, Confederate batteries opened fire on the fort, which was unable to reply effectively. At 2:30 pm, April 13, Major Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter, evacuating the garrison on the following day. The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening enga -
1st battle of bull run
On the morning of July 21, McDowell sent the divisions of Hunter and Heintzelman (about 12,000 men) from Centreville at 2:30 a.m., marching southwest on the Warrenton Turnpike and then turning northwest toward Sudley Springs. Tyler's division (about 8,000) marched directly toward the Stone Bridge. The inexperienced units immediately developed logistical problems. Tyler's division blocked the advance of the main flanking column on the turnpike. The latter units found the approach roads to Sudley -
battle of shioh
In April 1862 General Ulysses S. Grant's army was encamped along the Tennessee River just north of the Mississippi border; poised to strike a blow into the heartland of the South. Grant had been at this location for about a month, awaiting the arrival of additional troops under General Buell before he began his march southward. Twenty miles to the south, in Corinth, Mississippi, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston ordered his troops northward with the plan of attacking Grant before Buell -
emancipaton takes effect
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which was the proclamation addressing that all slaves shall be free. The Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery, though it did capture hearts of the many Americans. It changed the character of the war, and also expanded the domain of freedom. -
gettysburg battle
The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, the Union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the Rebellion", Gettysburg was the war's bloodiest battle with 51,000 casualties. It was also the inspiration for President Abraham Lincoln's immortal "Gettysburg Address". -
vicksburg falls
Pemberton, trying to please Jefferson Davis, who insisted that Vicksburg and Port Hudson must be held, and to please Johnston, who thought both places worthless militarily, had been caught in the middle, a victim of a convoluted command system and his own indecisiveness. Too dispirited to think clearly, he chose to back his bedraggled army into Vicksburg rather than evacuate the city and head north where he might have escaped to campaign again. When he chose to take his army into Vicksburg, Pemb -
gettysburg address
Abraham Lincoln gave the gettysburg address speech. The gettysburg adress was given on November 19,1863. It was given at the dedication of the soldiers national cemetery at Gettysburg. Lincoln stated that the war was not a war between regions but a fight for freedom. This speech is considered one of the best known speeches in the US history. -
sherman captures atlanta
General Sherman left from Tennessee for Georgia, with orders of damaging and destroying all that they could against their war resources. When he reached Atlanta, he found and demolished the South's most important rail and manufacturing center. After burning Atlanta, Sherman and the army marched toward Savannah, destroying everything they found in value through Georgia. From their he went north, destroying everything in the Carolinas, then finally reached North Carolina, where he waited for G -
lincoln re-elected
In the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president. The election was held during the Civil War. Lincoln ran under the National Union ticket against Democratic candidate George B. McClellan, his former top general. McClellan ran as the "peace candidate", but he did not personally believe in his party's platform. Although the only votes counted were those cast in states that had not attempted to secede from the Union, elections were held in the Union-oc -
13th amendtment passed
The first 12 amendments were adopted within 15 years of the Constitution’s adoption. The first ten (the Bill of Rights) were adopted in 1791, the Eleventh Amendment in 1795 and the Twelfth Amendment in 1804. When the Thirteenth Amendment was proposed there had been no new amendments adopted in more than 60 years.
During the secession crisis, but prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, the majority of slavery-related bills had protected slavery. The United States had ceased slave importation and -
columbia, sc burned
After an interval of more than four years, I have again the pleasure of greeting you,—I trust with no diminution of the heretofore kindly feeling which mutually subsisted between us. The acerbity of party politics has given place to those more generous and sensible impulses which should be preeminent in the hearts of brethren of the House of Israel, whose aims and hopes are in common. After the disasters of an unhappy war which I have felt keenly in person, I hold out my hand frankly to my old a -
lee surrenders
Dressed in an immaculate uniform, Lee waited for Grant to arrive. Grant, whose headache had ended when he received Lee's note, arrived in a mud-spattered uniform—a government-issue flannel shirt with trousers tucked into muddy boots, no sidearms, and with only his tarnished shoulder straps showing his rank.[14] It was the first time the two men had seen each other face-to-face in almost two decades.[15] Suddenly overcome with sadness, Grant found it hard to get to the point of the meeting and in -
lincoln shot
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lincoln dies
Booth knew the play by heart, and thus waited for the precise moment when actor Harry Hawk (playing the lead role of the "cousin", Asa Trenchard), would be onstage alone, engaging the audience with what was considered to be the funniest line of the play. Booth hoped to employ the enthusiastic response of the audience to muffle the sound of his gunshot. With the stage to himself, Hawk (Asa) responded to the recently departed Mrs Mountchessington, "Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well,
