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There were 31,443,321 people in America and 3,953,696 were slaves at the time.
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The Pony Express allowed faster communication between everyone which helped people get their info faster.
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On November 6th 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected president along with Hannibal Hamlin as his vice president.
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Southern representatives and senators issue the Manifesto which urges southern states to secede and form a confederacy.
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As a consequence of Lincoln’s election, a special convention of the South Carolina legislature votes to secede from the Union.
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Mississippi secedes along with South Carolina. Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Texas follow in their steps.
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Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as 16th President
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Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire marking the start of the Civil War
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Virgina secedes from the Union, then followed by Arkansas, Tennesse, and North Carolina.
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One of the first battles between The Confederacy and The Union in Virgina right near Washington D.C.
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Confederate forces attacked Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant. 13,000 out of 63,000 Union soldiers died, and 11,000 of 40,000 Confederate troops were killed.
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Major-General Henry Halleck was named general-in-chief of the Union army.
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Congress passes the Militia Act authorizing Lincoln to use black soldiers but they are paid only half of what the white soldiers are paid
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Bloodiest single day battle of the entire war.
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Lincoln announces that the Emancipation Proclamation will be effective January 1st 1863
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The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect freeing all slaves
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On May 2nd in Chancellorsville, Jackson is thought to be an enemy by his soldiers and is shot and later dies
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Grant and his men converge on the city, the confederates eventually surrender on July 4th
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One of the major union victories but there were many casualties.
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President Abraham Lincoln dedicates a portion of the Gettysburg battlefield as a national cemetery, and delivered the Gettysburg Address.
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President Lincoln appoints General Grant to command all of the armies of the United States
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Nine month siege of Petersburg begins, in which the confederacy eventually wins.
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Confederate General Jubal Early led his forces into Maryland to relieve the pressure on Lee's army. Early got within five miles of Washington, D.C., but on July 13, he was driven back to Virginia.
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Abraham is Re-elected as president, beating Democrat George B. McClellan, who was his former commander of the armies in which he got fired by Lincoln
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After marching through Georgia for a month, Sherman stormed Fort McAllister on December 13, 1864, and captured Savannah itself eight days later
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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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Peace conference between President Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens fails
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to General Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia
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As President Lincoln was watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., he was shot by John Wilkes Booth
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John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed in a tobacco barn in Virginia.
