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the time that lead up to the actual civil war
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Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
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Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape. He recieved about 35000 lashes in prison
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Lawrence Kansas captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces
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The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis as president.
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Confederates under General Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. Killing 580 people.
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the time the war was officially started and ended
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Virginia secedes from the Union, followed by Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, forming an eleven state Confederacy.
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this was the first land battle in virginia. Unit commander Col. T. Wynthrop died in this battle. The confederates won this battle.
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Lincoln finds out that his son has died due to polluted water.
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Confederate attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River results in a struggle with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland, killing 26,000 men. Lee has to withdraw from Virginia.
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The reconstruction started durring the war and ended around 1877. The reconstruction is the time period where the congress tried to resolve the conflict.
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The U.S. Congress enacts a draft, affecting male citizens aged 20 to 45, but also exempts those who pay $300 or provide a substitute.
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This battle lasted three days. This battle caused the most casualties. Gettysburg was in adams county, Pennsylvania. There was 158,300 soldiers, 83,289 were union;75,054 were confederate. There was about 51,000 soldiers that were lost in adams county, 23,000 were union; 28,000 were confederate. The union won this battle
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the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River surrenders to Gen. The Confederacy is effectively split in two, cut off from its western allies
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President Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address at a ceremony dedicating the Battlefield as a National Cemetery
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The U.S. Congress creates the thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery.
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Lee surrendered at Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House
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Lincoln and his wife went to go to a play while durring the play Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head. He later died the next day
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Remaining Confederate forces surrender. The Nation is reunited as the Civil War ends. Over 620,000 Americans died in the war, with disease killing twice as many as those lost in battle. 50,000 survivors return home as amputees
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Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War
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Susan B Anthony fined $100 for voting for President
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The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
