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Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis presented resolutions to the Senate to make sure that the Federal government cant end slavery in the territories, but they have to also protect slaveholders there.
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Former members of the American and Whig parties meet in Baltimore, MD, to form the Constitutional Union party.
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From May 16-18 in 1860, The Republican convention in Chicago met and then nominates Abraham Lincoln as its presidential candidate on the third ballot.
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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the United States of America.
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On December 20, 1860, South Carolina succeeds from the union.
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After being elected, Lincoln was inaguarated as President of the United States of America on March 4, 1861.
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The Civil War began with an attack on Fort Sumter where shots were fired but no one was killed. This was the first battle of The Civil War, but not the first blood shed.
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Virginia succeeds from the Union and joins the Confederacy. This is important because Richmond, a city in Virginia, becomes the capitol of all of the Confederate States.
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The Battle of Bull Run took place July 21, 1861 and it was the first blood shed of the Civil War. This was a Confederate victory.
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On November 7th, Captain Dupont's warships shut down Confederate guns in Fort Walker. This victory allowed General Thomas W. Sherman's troops to take over first Port Royal and then all the famous Sea Islands of South Carolina.
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On January 27, 1862 Lincoln orders McClellan to engage in War against the Confederacy and McClellan ignores the order.
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McClellan is fired by the impatient Abraham Lincoln for having the "slows".
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The battle of Shiloh begins and the Union troops fought under Ulysses S. Grant and forced the Confederates to retreat in this 2 day battle.
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Officer David Farragut was the leader of an assault up the Mississippi and because of that by April 25, he was in command of New Orleans.
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Major-General Henry Halleck was made General-In-Chief of the Union army.
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General McClellan beat General Lee at South Mountain and Crampton's Gap in September, but didn't move quickly enough to Harper's Ferry which fell to General Jackson on September 15.
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The bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War. There was no obvious winner, but since Confederates retreated, the Union was given the victory.
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Abraham Lincoln addressed this proclomation stating that all slaves in rebelling states are free.
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This battle was fought from April 30-May 6 in Virginia.
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Union General Grant won a few victories around Vicksburg, Mississippi. On May 22, Grant began a siege of the city. After six weeks, Confederate General John Pemberton surrendered, giving up the city and 30,000 men.This split the Confederacy into 2.
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The Battle of Gettysburg lasted from July 1st to the 3rd and it had the largest number of deaths than any other battle in the Civil War and is known to be the War's turning point.
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On September 19, Union and Confederate soldiers fought and after the battle, Union forces retreated to Chattanooga.
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The Battle of Chattanooga was fought from November 23-25 and the Union forces retreated and Confederates kept the hold of the Battlefield.
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109 Union soldiers led by Colonel Thomas Rose escaped from Libby Prison
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Took place May 5-7 and was the first battle of Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
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Ulysses S. Grant is badly defeated on the field by Robert E. Lee but Grant does not retreat but advances to the Spotsylvania Court House.
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known as one of the most lopsided battles of the Civil War
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A two day battle that represented the end of large scale fighing in the Western Theatre of the Civil War.
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After Admiral David D. Porter's group of warships had subjected Fort Fisher to an ambush, General Alfred H. Terry's troops took it on January 15,
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On March 25, General Lee fought General Grant's forces by Petersburg and was defeated and then attacked and lost again on April 1. On April 2, Lee evacuated Richmond and went west to join other forces.
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Richmond falls, Confederate government evacuates
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General Lee's troops were surrounded, and on April 7, Grant called upon Lee to surrender. Then, on April 9, the two commanders met at Appomattox Courthouse, and agreed on the exact terms of surrender.
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On April 14th, while watching a performance at Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth, and died early the next morning.
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The superintendent of the Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia, was tried for crimes, and was hanged in the yard of the Old Capitol Prison on November 10.
