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Tensions were high between Northern and Southern U.S.A. The South believed in slavery but the North didn't like slavery. The North also helped the runaway slaves from the South get to Canada safely where slavery was not allowed.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president. This scared the southern states because Lincoln was against slavery and their lives depended on slaves. Slaves did all of their work for their masters and the slave-owners did not want to have to do all of the work people have been doing for them for a while.
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South Carolina was the first state to secede from the nation.
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Throughout January and February of 1861, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisianna, and Texas seceded from the USA.
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The Confederate States of America was formed. There were a total of 11 states. Those 11 states had one and only one president that was named Jefferson Davis.
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Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as president.
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Robert E. Lee originally fought on the Union Side, but followed his home state, Virginia, to the Confederacy.
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The Civil War started with a battle on Fort Sumter, a Union fort in South Carolina.
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Hoosier soldiers fought their first battle at Philippi, Virginia.
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Union General John Pope and his army fought Confederate General Stonewall Jackson but lost the battle.
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President Lincoln announced that the Emancipation Proclamation would be put into effect on the first of the year 1863.
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Col. John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate cavalry leader, led hundreds of men through multiple states raiding to get people's attention off of the other larger battles going on.
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The 28th United States Colored Troop was formed in Indiana.
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee stops fighting and surrenders, ending the Civil War.
