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The census of 1860 showed the U.S. population to be 31,443,321. 47% of residents in the lower South was slaves.
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President Lincoln gave a speech at Cooper Insitute attacking slavery and insisting that the Federal government has "the power of restraining the extension of the institution."
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President Lincoln was elected and won against John C. Brickinridge and Stephen A. Douglas.
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The 36th Congress of the United States, second session, begins in Washington, D.C
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South Carolina was the first state to secede because of disagreements with the North which include slavery.
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President Lincoln was inagurated preceding President Buchanan.
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Lincoln sent supplies to Fort Sumter , Confederate commander Robert Anderson asked to surrender. He was denied and Fort Sumter was surrendered to South Carolina.
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Union general Irvin McDowell suffers a defeat at Bull Run.
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President Lincoln appoints McClellan as general-in-chief of all Union forces after the resignition of the aged Winifred Scott.
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Jefferson Davis was elected to a six year term as president of the Confederacy,
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The Battle of Mill Springs was fought in Kentucky and was the first significant victory for the Union.
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President Lincoln's beloved eleven year old son,Willie, passes away from a fever.
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Union general George McClellan, also known for having "the slows", was fired by President Lincoln due to his inactivity and hesitation.
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General Ulysses S. Grant captured two COnfederate forts in Tennessee. The Union came out victorious.
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75,000 Federals under General John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under General Stonewall Jackson and General James Longstreet at the second battle of Bull Run in northern Virginia.
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclomation which freed all slaves behind Confederate lines.
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Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies.
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Union General Grant crossed the Mississippi River and drove Confederates into defensive lines surrounding the city of Vicksburg. May 18-July 4 1863
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July 1-3 1863. This battle had the largest amount of casualties from any battle in the Civil War and is known as the turning point. The Union ended Lee's invasion of the North.
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President Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg Address.
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President Lincoln appoints General Grant to command all armies of the United States.
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The battle ended with a massacre of surrendered Federal black troops by soldiers.
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General Grant makes a huge mistake which cost 7,000 casualties in twenty minutes at Cold Harbor in Virginia.
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Ex General George McClellan, whom was fired by President Lincoln was nominated as the Democratic candidate who ran against Lincoln.
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Lincoln was re-elected after his frist term.
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The thirteenth amendment of the United States Constitution was approved by Congress, to abolish slavery.
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to General Ulysses S. Grant of the North, in Virginia.
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Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
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General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to Sherman near Durham in North Carolina.
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Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was murdered in a tobacco farm in Virginia.
