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Lincoln is Elected
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States. -
South Carolina Secedes
South Carolina is the first state to secede form the Union. -
Mississippi Secedes
Mississippi was the second state to secede form the Union. -
Florida Secedes
Florida was the third state to secede from the Union, -
Alabama Secedes
Alabama is the fourth state to secede form the Union. -
Georgia Secedes
Georgia was the fifth state to secede from the Union. -
Louisiana Secedes
Louisiana was the sixth state to secede from the Union. -
Texas Secedes
Texas was the seventh state to secede from the Union. -
Robert E. Lee Becomes Commander
Robert E. Lee was commander of the Confederate Army. He was a beast. -
Fort Sumter
The bombings and surrender at Fort Sumter started the Civil War. Fort Sumter is located near Charleston, South Carolina -
Lincoln Calls For 75,000 Volunteers
President Lincoln calls on states for 75,000 volunteers to take care of the rebellion. -
Virginia Secedes
Virginia was the eighth state to secede form the Union. -
McClellan Becomes Commander
George McClellan was a Union commander, and tended to hesistate in battle. -
Burnside Becomes commander
Ambrose Burnside was a Union General and fought at 1st Manassas. -
Arkansas Secedes
Arkansas was the ninth state to secede from the Union. -
Tennessee Secedes
Tennessee was the eleventh state to secede form the Union. -
1st Manassas (1st Bull Run)
!st Manassas was the first major battle of the Civil War. -
Fort Donelson
Fort Donelson was a Confederate fort to control the Cumberland River. -
Fort Henry
The Battle of Fort Henry was the first important victory for the Union. -
Merrimac vs. Monitor
This was the first battle between ironclad ships. -
Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was a major battle in the Western Theater. -
Pope Becomes Commander
John Pope was a Union general that had a brief career in the Western Theater, but is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run. -
2nd Manassas (2nd Bull Run)
Major battle between Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Pope's Army of Virginia -
Sharpsburg (Antietam)
The Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam) was the first major battle of the Civil War fought on Northern soil. -
Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought between Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Burnside's Army of the Potomac. -
Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Union General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army into the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is described as the war's turning point. -
13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville was fought from April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville. -
Siege of Petersburg
These nine months of trench warfare in which Union forces commanded by Grant assaulted Petersburg unsuccessfully and then constructed trench lines that eventually extended from the eastern outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, to around the eastern and southern outskirts of Petersburg. -
Atlanta Captured
Hood's army was besieged in Atlanta and the city fell on September 2, speeding up the end of the war. -
Battle of Nashville
The Battle of Nashville was the end of large scale fighting in the Western Theater. -
Lee Surrenders
Lee's launched an attack to break through the Union force to his front, assuming the Union force consisted entirely of cavalry. When he realized that the cavalry was backed up by two corps of Union infantry, he had no choice but to surrender. -
Joseph E. Johnson Surrenders
General Joseph E. Johnson (Confederate) surrenders his remaining Confederate forces to General William Tecumseh Sherman (Union) near Durham, North Carolina
