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On December 20th, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the United States. Once Lincon became president South Carolina legislature perceived a threat because they knew he was an opponent of slavery. -
On March 4th, 1861 Lincoln’s had said his first Inaugural address. he had promised to not interfere with the institution of slavery where it existed, and he also had pledged to suspend the activities of the federal government temporarily in areas of hostility. -
On April 12th, 1861, the Confederates bombarded the fort, surrounding the harbor. The union was significantly outgunned and, Major Anderson agreed to evacuate. -
On April 27th, 1861, Lincoln suspends habeas corpus, this was to "give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels." This means that commanders could arrest people who were "deemed threatening" to military operations. -
On May 8th, 1861, Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy. They moved it because of Virginia's strategic importance. -
On July 21st, 1861, the First Battle of Bull Run is fought. This was the first major land battle of the civil war. A union force that was under General Irvin McDowell is routed by a Confederate army that was under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard. -
On November 6th, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederacy. He had run without opposition and the election had just confirmed the decision that the congress made earlier this year. -
In June 1862, Robert E. Lee is named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia and the most successful of the Southern armies during the American Civil War. He became the "Symbol of the American South." -
On March 9th, 1862, The Merrimack and the Monitor fight of the Virginia coast occurred. It was history’s first naval battle between ironclad warships. it was also part of a Confederate effort to break the Union blockade of Southern ports. -
On April 4th, 1862, the Battle of Shiloh resulted in a huge victory for the Union during the Civil War. The Confederate Army had launched a surprise attack on the Union under General Ulysses S. Grant -
On September 17th, 1862, Lee had invaded Maryland and wanted to move the focus of fighting away from the South and into Federal territory. In the end, General Robert E. Lee committed his entire force to the battle. -
On December 11th, 1862 the Battle of Fredericksburg started, there were 106,000 union soldiers and 72,500 confederate soldiers. This battle stands as one of the greatest Confederate victories, it was led by General Robert E. Lee. -
On January 1st, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation had said "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
On April 30th, 1863, the Battle of Chancellorsville occurred. The confederates won and it stopped an attempted flanking movement by Major Gen. Joseph against the General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. -
On July 1st, 1863, The Battle of Gettysburg started and lasted through July 3rd. they were around Gettysburg Pennsylvania by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
On July 3rd, 1863, Confederates surrender at Vicksburg. The Confederates surrendered their Union control of the Mississippi River and the South in two. -
On July 11th, 1863, New York City Draft Riots. This was over a new federal draft law during the Civil War. -
On November 19th, 1863, The Gettysburg Address that Lincoln gives has given meaning to the sacrifice of over fifty thousand men who had "laid down their lives" in the Battle of Gettysburg. The address also said that the U.S had to stand as a country where all men are created equal and should be treated as equals -
On November 8th, 1864, the civil war was coming to an end, President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party defeated George McClellan to win the re-election. It was by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college. -
On November 12th, 1864, The union that is run under General William T. Sherman captured Atlanta. He then moves on to the "march to the sea." -
On November 15th, 1864, General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers' to march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. This was to scare Georgia's population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
On January 1st, 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment which leads to the ratification of the 13th amendment that abolished slavery in the United States. -
On March 3, 1865, Congress has passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees.” This helps provide food, shelter, clothing, and medical services. -
On March 4th, 1865, Lincoln had his Second Inaugural Address. It was to claim that the North and the South had "to share some of the blame for the sin of slavery." -
On April 2nd, 1865, Richmond falls to the Union Army. The retreat of the army left the Confederate capital of Richmond completely defenseless. -
On April 9th, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox. He surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General, and this ended the Civil war. -
On April 14th, 1865, Wilkes booth killed president Lincoln at the Fords Theater in Washington D.C. This occurred 5 days after General Robert E. Lee had surrendered his army, which ended the Civil War. -
On April 4th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth was killed because, on April 14th, 1865, he killed President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. John Wilkes Booth was part of a family of celebrated actors but he will now always be remembered as the person who killed President Lincoln.