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Battle in which the Union won using sudden assault as a stratagi that would prove to be very good.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president, he is a republican who had 40% of the popular vote and declared "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free".
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South Carolina secedes from the Union and within two months Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas follow.
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The Confederate States of America is formed and the first president is Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer
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Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as 16th President of the United States of America.
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At 4:30 a.m. Confederates open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina under General Pierre Beauregard
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a war between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America.
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President Lincoln issues a Proclamation calling for 75,000 militiamen, and summoning a special session of Congress for July 4
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Virginia secedes from the Union,and within five weeks Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina follow thus forming an eleven state Confederacy with a population of 9 million, including nearly 4 million slaves
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President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports For the duration of the war the blockade limits the ability of the rural South to stay well supplied in its war against the industrialized North
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By using secluded roads the Union was able to once again defeat Confederate forces.
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Battle in which the Union would eventually win, but not without first failing twice in a row.
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As the final leg in completing the Unions strategy known as The Anaconda Plan, in the end the Union would win.
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A mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties in twenty minutes during an offensive against fortified Rebels at Cold Harbor in Virginia.
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The U.S. Congress approves the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, to abolish slavery. The amendment is then submitted to the states for ratification.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Grant allows Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permits soldiers to keep horses and mules.
