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Created a platform from the U. S. Constitution and selects John Bell for President and Edward Everett of Massachusetts for Vice-President. It represents southern Whigs and Know-nothings (American Party).
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Southern delegates hold a National Democratic convention in Richmond.
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James Chesnut becomes the first Southerner to resign from the Senate. He is quickly followed by James H. Hammond
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In Preston County, Western Virginia holds its first organizational meeting, expressing a desire to "adhere to the Union".
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Major Robert Anderson reports Fort Sumter is being threatened in Charleston as federal forces begin to improved Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter in the harbor.
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The first Secession Convention meets in Columbia, South Carolina.
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The convention decides unanimously to secede from the United States and appoints a committee to draw up the needed documents.
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South Carolina was the first Southern slave state to succeed from the union.
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Lincoln's opposition to a section of the Crittenden Compromise becomes public, ending the proposal's potential as a possible solution
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Mississippi was the second state to succeed from the Union.
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Florida was the third state to succeed from the Union.
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Alabama was the fourth state to succeed from the Union.
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Georgia was the fifth state to succeed from the Union.
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Louisiana was the sixth state to succeed from the Union.
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The Confederate States of America consisted of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. They succeeded from the union because they feared Lincoln would ruin their way of life.
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Texas was the seventh state to succeed from the Union.
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Unofficial start of the Civil War. Was a Union fort in Charleston, South Carolina
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Arkansas was the eighth state to succeed from the Union.
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Tennessee was the ninth state to succeed from the Union.
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North Carolina was the tenth state to succeed from the Union.
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Virginia was the eleventh state to succeed from the Union.
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First official battle of the Civil War. Union met confederacy at a creek in Virginia, just 25 miles from Washington D.C. It was the first confederate victory. Stonewall Jackson got his nickname from this war.
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First important victory for Ulysses S. Grant. Grant captured Fort Henry for the Union.
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Grant captures Fort Donelson for the Union. It ensured Kentucky would stay in the Union.
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Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederate States.
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Battle between Confederate and Union ironclad ships. Stops use of wooden warships.
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The Confederates attacked the Union near the small church of Shiloh. The Union decided to attack again after. It was a Union victory.
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David Farragut captured Port Orleans for the Union.
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Series of battles near Richmond, Virginia that lasted seven days from June 25 to July 1. Due to casualties McClellan retreated.
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Battle fought in Mananas in the same spot as the Battle of Bull Run.
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The Battle of Harpers Ferry was part of the Maryland campaign. It was a Confederate victory.
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Fought in Sharpsburg, Maryland, the battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single day battle in the war. It was a Union victory.
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Battle fought in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The confederate victory gained morale after Antietam.
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Military policy created by Lincoln that freed all slaves behind confederate lines.
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Lincoln calls for 1 million men for the war. Each man drafted was to either serve in the war of pay the government $300.
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South victory in Virginia. Stonewall Jackson accidentally shot by one of his men and died at this battle.
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Grant captured Vicksburg for the Union. It split the confederacy in two.
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After the many casualties at Gettysburg Robert E. Lee is forced to retreat. This causes him to lose motivation and he tries to resign but fails.
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West Virginia is added to the Union. It was the first state to enter without having to pick between a free or slave state.
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The turning point of the war for the Union. Caused Robert E. Lee to give up hope and attempt to resign.
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A week of riots in Manhattan against the enrollment act.
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Chickamauga was the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War. It lasted two days and was a confederate victory.
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Speech given by Lincoln that honored the dead and asked Americans to rededicate themselves to preserving the Union.
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109 Union prisoners escaped Libby Prison. It was the largest escape of the war.
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Andersonville prison camp is know for its cruel and inhumane conditions. It was overcrowded and little food was provided . It caused a lot of Union soldier's deaths.
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Ulysses S. Grant is appointed lieutenant general by President Lincoln. Grant assumes command of all Union Armies in the field the next day.
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The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery in the US.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest attacked the Union at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River. Many African American troops were murdered by Forrest's troops after they had surrendered.
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Lee attacked the Union in the woods of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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General William T. Sherman marched south from Tennessee into Georgia against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Joseph Johnston, the objective being the city of Atlanta.
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Hood's second effort to throw back Union forces under Sherman brings him many casualties. General James McPherson, commander of the Union Army of the Tennessee, is killed during the fighting.
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Lincoln is re-elected president. He ran against former Union general George McCllean.
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From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
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Grant and Lee meet at Appomattox, Virginia where they arranged the confederate surrender.
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Union occupation of the fort at the end of the Cape Fear River, the last southern seaport on the east coast that was open to blockade runners and commercial shipping.
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Sherman's Army captures Columbia, South Carolina while Confederate defenders leave Charleston, South Carolina.
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President Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated for his second term as president in Washington, DC.
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"Lee's last offensive", Confederate troops under General John B. Gordon attack and capture the Union fort in the Petersburg siege lines in an attempt to prevent Union plans for a late March assault.
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The Confederate defeat at Five Forks initiates General Lee's decision to abandon the Petersburg-Richmond siege lines.
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General Lee abandons Richmond and moves his army west in hopes of joining Confederate forces under General Johnston in North Carolina.
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Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at the home of Wilmer McLean in Appomattox Court House.
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While watching a play at Ford's Theater, Lincoln was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth.
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General Simon Bolivar Buckner enters into terms for surrender of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, which are agreed to on June 2, 1865.
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The first formal observation of President Lincoln's birthday is held in Washington, D. C.
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The Freedmen's bureau bill helped freed slaves in the South during reconstruction after the Civil War.
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President Johnson veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866 because he states that it is unconstitutional.
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Congress buys Ford's Theater for $100,000. They then made it into the Army Medical Museum.
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Federal law that stated every male person in the US would get the same rights as a white male.
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General Winfield Scott dies in West Point, New York.
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Congress approves the 14th amendment to the constitution.
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After the Civil War, Tennessee was the first state to be readmitted into the Union.
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Congress creates the rank of Admiral. David Farragut is appointed Admiral.
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Congress establishes "general of the armies" and Ulysses S. Grant is immediately promoted to 4-star general and put in this position. William Tecumseh Sherman assumes the rank of Lt. General.
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Blacks in Washington D. C. gain the right to vote in a bill passed over President Andrew Johnson's veto.
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The state of Nebraska is added to the Union.
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It temporarily divided the South into five military districts and outlined how governments based on universal (male) suffrage were to be organized.
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A federal law that prevented the president from removing congressmen from office without approval from the Senate.
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Alexandria, Virginia rejects thousand of votes cast by Negroes, who were granted universal suffrage under the Reconstruction Act.
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General Philip Sheridan assumes command of the 5th Military district encompassing Louisiana and Texas. He designates New Orleans as his headquarters.
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The Second Reconstruction Act added to the first. The First Reconstruction Act left the Southern States in confusion to whose role it was to reinforce the legislation.
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William P. Seward signed a treaty with Russia buying Alaska for 2 cents an acre. Democrats called it "Seward's Folly"
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Congress passes a bill admitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, having refused to ratify the fourteenth amendment, were refused admission into the Union
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It gave supreme power to the five Union generals overseeing Reconstruction in the five districts of the South.
