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Civil war starts because the Confederates opened fire on fort sumpter.
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april 12,1861– April 9,1865
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Virgina left the union for the south
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For the duration of the war the blockade limits the ability of the rural South to stay well supplied in its war against the industrialized North
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Ulysses S. Grant captures fort Henry, and ten days later Fort Donelson.
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Lincons son Willie dies from a high feaver
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The confederates attack Grant on the tennesee river
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17 Union ships under the command of Flag Officer David Farragut move up the Mississippi River then take New Orleans.
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Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Army attacks McClellan's troops in front of Richmond and nearly defeats them. But Johnston is badly wounded.
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Lee invades the North with 50,000 Confederates and heads for Harpers Ferry,
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Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan
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Gen. Burnside suffers a costly defeat at Fredericksburg in Virginia with a loss of 12,653
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Oscars troop packs up there tents and left for Tennesee
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Oscars troop arrives at Gallipolis at 8 A.M
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The battle started and ended on the 3rd.
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Gen. Lee with 75,000 Confederates launches his second invasion of the North.
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President Lincoln delivers a two minute Gettysburg Address at a ceremony dedicating the Battlefield as a National Cemetery.
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President Lincoln appoints Gen. Grant to command all of the armies of the United States.
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At Atlanta, Sherman's forces battle the Rebels now under the command of Gen. John B. Hood, who replaced Johnston.
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Abraham Lincoln is re-elected president, defeating Democrat George B. McClellan.
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Hood's Rebel Army of 23,000 is crushed at Nashville by 55,000 Federals.
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The U.S. Congress approves the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, to abolish slavery
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President Lincoln tours Richmond where he enters the Confederate White House.
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Robert E. Lee surrenders the confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
