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Confederates attacked fort Sumter under the command of Gen. Pierre Beauregard.
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Ulyssses S. Grant and his troops were suprised with an attack by the Confederates at Shiloh on the Tennessee River
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Federals defeat Confederates under the command of Gen. John Pope at the second bull run in northern Virginia.
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The bloodiest day in U.S. military history. Confederates and Gen. Robert E. Lee are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by Union forecs under the command of Gen. McClellan.
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The Confederate defeat the Union who losses 12,653 men under hte command of Gen. Burnside at Fredericksberg in Virginia
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Lee wins a great achievement with his much smaller force against the Union Army under the comand of Gen. Hooker at Chancellorsille in Virginia.
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The war changes tides as the Union defeat the Confederates at Gettysberg in Pennsylvania
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The Confederate win a victory under the command of Gen. Braxton Bragg and leave the Union Army trapped in Chattanooga, Tennessee under Confederate siege
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At a ceremony dedicated to fallen soliders, Abraham Lincoln delivered a two minute Gettysburg Address.
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After the defeat at Chickamauga, the Union Army defeat the Confederates under the command of Gen. Grant.
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Sherman starts his march to the with 62,000men after destroying Atlanta's warehouse.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Amry to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of the Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
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When Lincoln and his wife go to see the play "our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. In the middle of the play, John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head thus killing the president.