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This is the rifle that is going to be used during the course of American Civil War.
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This is the first time Davis says he wants the south to secede.
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Lincoln gives a speech in New York as a Presidential candidate.
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The Pony Express help deliver some messages during the course of the Civil War.
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A National Democratic convention is held in Richmond, Virginia. They discuss the "wait and see" approach.
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The result of the 1860 election leaves the country divided. The north voted for Abraham Lincoln and the south voted for Breckenridge. However, Stephen A. Douglas had a large amount of popular votes, 1,380,202. It was very close to Lincoln's 1,865,908 votes.
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Georgia delegates discuss the possibility of seceding.
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It is held in Columbus, South Carolina.
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This was a compromise proposed by John J. Crittenden to end the secession.
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South Carolina begins the secession of the southern states from the Union to create the Confederate States of America. The state seceded because they felt they didn't have a voice in the government and the newly elected president's opinion on slavery.
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This is the second state to secede from the Union.
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Florida is the third state to secede from the Union.
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Alabama is the fourth state to secede from the Union. The secession of Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama happened between three days.
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Georgia is the fifth state to secede from the Union.
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Louisiana is the sixth state to secede from the Union.
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Texas is the seventh state to secede from the Union.
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The South created their own country called the Confederate States of America. The states that were in the Confederacy at teh very beginning are South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
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In South Carolina, the Confederacy attacked a base. No one was killed. Abraham Lincoln wanted to avoid conflict at all costs and didn't give any weapons, just food. Could be considered the first "battle" of the Civil War.
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Virginia is the eighth state to secede from the Union.
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Arkansas is the ninth state to secede from the Union.
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North Carolina is the tenth state to secede from the Union.
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Tennessee is the eleventh and final state to secede from the Union.
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The First Battle of Bull Run is the first official battle of the American Civil War. It ended with a Confederate victory.
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South Carolina is notified that troops are coming towards the South.
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The Union gained control of this fort. This gave them a chance to take the Tennessee River because of its location.
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Jefferson Davis was inaugurated in Montgomery, Alabama as the first and only President of the Confederacy.
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The USS Monitor and the CSS Virgina (old USS Merrimack) figt in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
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This was a battle in Tennessee that was a Union victory. It resulted in 23,746 causalities.
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Admiral David Farragut arrives at New Orleans with a fleet of warships. Within two days, the mouth of the great river is under Union control.
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A naval battle fought on the Mississippi River. It was a Union victory.
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General Joseph Johnson is replaced by Robert E Lee after being wounded. Union technically wins. Yet, it was too great a cost for the victory.
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This battle was held in Virginia and resulted in, once again, a Confederate victory.
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This was a battle in Maryland that was extremely deadly. The Union could have won/ finished the war, but they retreated. There is no true winner.
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The Army of the Potomac is defeated by the Confederates.
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The Emancipation Proclamation is a document that said all slaves should be freed within the Confederacy. However, it didn't have much power because the Confederacy didn't listen to the Union.
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It is held Murfreesboro, Tennessee. It ended with a Union victory.
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This battle helped the Union work their way to Vicksburg. It was fought on the Arkansas River.
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General William T. Sherman begins the campaign of destruction in Mississippi.
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Union men begin to be drafted into the army.
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Battle is held in Fredricksburg, Virginia. It was a great Confederate victory.
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The Confederate Lieutenant is injured with friendly fired and dies eight days later due to pneumonia.
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Union artillery opened fire on Confederate and weakening them.
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This was battle held in Pennsylvania that resulted in a Union victory. It resulted in 46,286 casualties over the course of three days. That makes it the costliest land battle of the Civil War.
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It is held in Georgia. It resulted in a Confederate victory. The Union army retreats to Chattanooga, TN.
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The Confederates retreat in Athens, Alabama after trying to take the city.
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The first submarine attack in the Civil War was a Confederate craft. It attacked in Charleston, South Carolina
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Lincoln signed a brief document that enlisted Ulysses S. Grant as the lieutenant general of the U.S. Army.
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The battle is held in Louisiana. It ends in a Confederate victory. The Union failed to occupy Shreveport.
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It is held in Virginia. The results of the battle are inconclusive. It had 28,791 casualties.
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General Sherman occupy the city and destroy the city.
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The battle is held in Virginia and ends in a Union victory.
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Abraham Lincoln was overwhelmingly elected President again. This meant there wasn't going to be a settlement between the Confederacy and the United States.
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President Lincoln gave a speech to commemorate the lives lost in the battle of Gettysburg.
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Sherman destroys the city of Savannah, Georgia and offers it as a Christmas present to Abe Lincoln.
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He was brigadier general, and major general before his promotion by the Confederates.
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The Confederacy has its last session as a country. They never met again because of their defeat in the Civil War.
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The Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to the Union, Grant and Sheridan at the Appomattox Courthouse.
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John Wilkes Booth kills President Lincoln in Ford's Theater. He shoots him in the back of his head.
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The Union raises their flag at the "first battle" of the Civil War, Fort Sumter.
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After Abe Lincoln's assassination, vice president Andrew Johnson becomes president. He wanted to quickly join the Confederacy and Union back together.
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The former Confederacy President was captured in Irwinville, Georgia.
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It takes place in Palmito Ranch, Texas. It is a Confederate victory.
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He is hanged due to his war crimes on the worst prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia.
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The amendment abolished slavery and gave slave more rights. It was added to the U.S. Constitution.
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The first formal celebration of the former president's birthday in Washington, D.C.
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This was a bill that was passed by Congress. It aided the freed slaves through reconstruction.
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Texas, after losing in the war, began to repeal their decisions while in the Confederacy.
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President Johnson vetoes the Act because he believed it was unconstitutional.
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The United States declares peace with the former states of the Confederacy.
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Congress pays $100,000 for the theater and change it into the Army Medical Museum, Office of the Surgeon General and War Department until 1893.
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He was a United States General and an unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party.
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The epidemic begins in New York after a foreigner brought it to the United States.
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Congress approves the fourteenth amendment. It was a reconstruction amendment.
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Ulysses S. Grant is promoted to 4 star general, and William Tecumseh Sherman is promoted to Lt. General.
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A fire destroys many ships used over the course of the Civil War.
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The former Confederate state rejected the amendment that aided reconstruction.
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In Washington D.C., Black people have the right to vote because of a bill passed by President Andrew Johnson.
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A western territory becomes a state after the chaos of the Civil War.
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Congress passed an act that denies the President to remove officials that were appointed by Congress.
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In Alexandria, Virginia, thousands of voters are rejected. However, they were given universal suffrage.
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General Philip Sheridan assumes command of the 5th Military district, Louisiana and Texas. He makes New Orleans his headquarters.
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The Senate ratifies treaty that gives the territory, Alaska, from Russia.
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Congress passes a bill admitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas were refused admission into the Union. They did not ratify the 14th amendment.
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He is promoted to Interim Secretary of War.
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Russia turns over Alaska to the United States. It doesn't become a state until 1959.
