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The nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the new President and Vice President of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln won this election, served as the 16th and first President from the Republican party.
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The state of South Carolina, was the first slave state in the South to proclaim that it had seceded from the U.S. The Declaration of the Immediate Causes, which induced and Justified the secession of this state took place on the 24th of December, 1860.
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A representative from each of the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama so that they could establish a unified government. Which was named as "The Confederate States of America".
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A man named Jefferson Davis was appointed as the only president of the "Confederate States of America" on the 9th of February, 1861.
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Abraham Lincoln took oath of office for his first term as the sixteenth president of the United States of America, on Monday, March 4th, 1861.
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The Confederate States Army attacked Fort Sumter (near Charleston, South Carolina). It was a Confederate victory. This event started the American civil war.
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The first major land battle of the Civil War, the Union and Confederate armies clashed. It resulted to be as a Confederate victory which gave them confidence to keep moving forward. The Union Army were left shocked.
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The first meeting in combat of ironclad warships. (The USS monitor and the CSS confederate).
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A battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, in Southwestern Tennessee.
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A naval action by Union forces seeking to capture this land during the Civil War. Confederate Army suffers from permanent loss.
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Fought during the American Civil war. It was larger in scale and had a greater number of casualties than the first battle of Bull Run
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Known to be "the bloodiest day in American history". A battle fought between Lee's army of North Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac.
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A presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln
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General Ulysses S. Grant's armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate Army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton.
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The most important engagement of the American Civil War. A Union victory that stopped Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North.
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Known as the "Draft Week". Violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan against the new law passed by congress that men will draft to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
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An infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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"The Lawrence massacre", an attack during the American Civil War by the Quantrill's Raiders. Resulted as a Confederate victory.
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A speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln for a declaration of Soldier's National Cemetery, for the fallen Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Hand cranked Confederate submarine "H.L. Hunley" torpedoed the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor.
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Lt. Gen. Ulysses S Grant's first battle. 1864's Virginia overland against General. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate army of Northern Virginia.
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The Union forces were neutralizing the important rail and supply hub. Resulted as a Union victory, defeating the Confederates.
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Abraham Lincoln is reelected for president. He was seen as a moderate for slavery. This worried the Southerners and they vowed to leave the Union if he was reelected.
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Sherman's army was a campaign for the Civil war and it conducted through the state of Georgia. Army of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union army.
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A successful assault for the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, near the end of the American Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln takes oath at his second inauguration to start his second term as president.
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Sherman and his Union troops occupy Fayetteville. They went to capture and destroy the Confederate arsenal.
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The Union and Confederacy fought on this day, it was one of the last battles of the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the U.S. gets assassinated by an well known actor John Wilkes Booth, while attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.
