Virginia history

History Timeline

By LTDavis
  • New Bullet

    New Bullet
    New bullet ammunition, made the reload at a faster rate, rifles were also more accurate
  • John Brown

    John Brown
    John Brown raids haprers ferry, captures citizens and seizes federal armory and asernal. However his plan did not work fully and was hung.
  • South Caroline Secedes

    South Caroline Secedes
    South Carolina Secedes from the union, this ignited other states to secede later on such as Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Lousiana and Texas.
  • Confederacy

    Confederacy
    Confederacy is formed from the seceded states, John Davis becomes temporary president for the confederates.
  • Battle of Bullrun

    Battle of Bullrun
    This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. On July 16, 1861, the untried Union army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run beyond Centreville.
  • Battle of Ghettysburg

    Battle of Ghettysburg
    A battle that took place in Ghettysburg that lasted for 3 days Confederates drove Union defenders through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill.
  • 13th ammendment

    13th ammendment
    13th ammendment was passed, Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
  • Lincoln ssassination

    Lincoln ssassination
    President Abraham Lincoln Assasinated in peterson house by John Wilkes Booth