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On this date, Jefferson Davis comes out in favor of secession for the first time
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South Carolina calls for a convention on December 17 to decide if the state should secede from the Union.
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Georgia calls for a convention of Southern states to form an independent nation.
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This is when the first state, South Carolina, breaks apart from the union
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Major Robert Anderson transfers his command from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter on his own initiative. He felt it was impossible to hold Fort Moultrie against South Carolina militia.
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Cadets fired at the star of the west to stop the resupplying of Fort Sumter.
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Jefferson Davis was Inaugurated as the president of the Confederacy
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After being defeated, the people of the union had to surrender fort sumter to the Confederacy.
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The men of the Confederacy votes on moving their capital to Richmond, Virginia
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Jefferson Davis was electe to a 6 year term as president of the Confederacy
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General George McClellan was fired on this date. He was fired for being an ineffective leader because of his assumed "slows" condition.
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The battle for Shiloh, where the confederates launched a suprise attack on Ulysses S. Grant, but were ultimately defeated.
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Under Gen. Farrgut's command, the union successfully took over New Orleans as part of the Anaconda Plan.
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With a confederate victory, Gen Stonewall Jackson captured won the second battle of Bull Run.
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The battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day battle of the civil war, began and ended on this date with formal withdrawls.
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After the bloody battle of Antietam, Lincoln delivered a speach that recognized the lives of not only the union soldiers that died, but the confederate soldiers as well.
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On this date, Ulysses S. Grant began a seige on Vicksburg where general John Pemberton surrendered the city.
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The battle of Getttysburg started on this date, finishing with one of the bloodiest and moral boosting victories the Union had ever had.
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On this date, the Union and Confederacy met on the Tennessee-Georgia border, near Chickamauga Creek. After the battle, the Confederacy maintained control of the battlefield.
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On this date, Union forces pushed Confederate troops away from Chattanooga. The victory set the stage for General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign.
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On this day, Lincoln puts Gen. Grant in charge of all armies of the U.S.
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On this date, Grant begins to take his army of 120,000 men to fight Lee, first starting in Northern Virginia.
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The start of battle where 7,000 men are killed in 20 minutes. Lee did win, but his will was tested when Grant kept attacking general Lee.
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The start of a battle the was supposed to be a quick success for Grant so he could just move to Richmond. This battle lasted an entire 10 months with thousands of lives lost.
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With a popular vote of 55 percent, Abraham Lincoln wins the election over democrat George B. McClellan.
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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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A peace conference occurs as President Lincoln meets with Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens at Hampton Roads in Virginia, but the meeting ends in failure.
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On this date is the inauguration ceremonies for President Lincoln in Washington D.C.
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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.
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President Abraham Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning. Vice President Andrew Johnson assumes the presidency.
