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Jefferson Davis acts as president
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Confederates open fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
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"I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children." R.E.L Resigns his commision in the US Army
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Confederate Gen. Thomas J. Jackson earns the nickname "Stonewall" as his brigade resists union attacks.
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Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops attacked at Shiloh on the Tennessee River results in a bitter struggle with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more men than in all previous American wars combined.
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75,000 Federals under Gen. John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Gen. James Longstreet at the second battle of Bull Run in northern Virginia. Once again the Union Army retreats to Washington. The president then relieves Pope.
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The bloodiest day in U.S. Military History as General Robert E. Lee and Confederate troops are stopped at Antietam Maryland by McClellan and other Union forces. By nightfall 26,000 are dead, wounded or missing.
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The tide of war turns against the South when Confederate troops are defeated at the battle of gettysburg in Pennsylvania
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Linoln Dedicates the Battlefield of Gettysburg as a national cemetery
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Atlanta is captured by Sherman's Army. "Atlanta is ours, and fairly won," Sherman telegraphs Lincoln. The victory greatly helps President Lincoln's bid for re-election.
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It is then sent to the States for ratification
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to General Ulysses S Grant.
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John Wilkes Booth Shoots President Lincoln at Fords Theater
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The 13th ammendment is ratified and slavery is abolished.
