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Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and U.S. Army officer, was elected as the president for the Confederate States of America. The Confederate States of America was formed because they wanted to continue with slavery while the Union opposed.
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Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office and became the 16th President of the United States of America. Lincoln was an advocate for freeing slaves and lead the Union.
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At 4:30am, on April 12,1861, Confederates fired 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Pierre Beauregard was the general of the Confederates at this time. This caused the Civil War to begin.
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55,000 Confederates under General Stonewall Jackson and James Longstreet defeated 75,000 Federals lead by General John Pope at the battle of Bull Run. The Union retreats once again to Washington. President Lincoln relieves Pope.
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General Robert E. Lee and the Confederates are stopped at Antietam, in Maryland, by McClellan and a much more superior number of Union forces. When night time struck, 26,000 men were dead, missing, or majorly wounded. Robert E. Lee decides to withdraw to Virginia.
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President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in territories held by Confederates. With the Emancipation, he enlisted black soldiers in the Union Army.
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The tides are turned at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. The Confederates are defeated, and the North takes the lead in the war.
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On December 6, 1865 The United States wrote the Thirteenth Amendment into the Constitution. Slavery was abolished from this date on.
