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The 1860 Democratic National Convention convened at South Carolina Institute Hall in Charleston, South Carolina. -
The Democratic Convention was held in Richmond, Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States of America. -
James Chestnut was a southerner that resigned from senate. -
On this date in 1860, Robert Toombs resigned from the senate. -
The first Secession Convention meets in Columbia, South Carolina. -
Crittenden compromise failed. -
South Carolina secedes from the Union. -
President Buchanan fires his cabinet. -
John Floyd resigned from his position after disagreements with Buchanon over Fort Sumter. -
Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the sixteenth president of the United States. -
Southern Forces fire on Fort Sumter, South Carolina. This was the beginning of the Civil War. -
President Lincoln issues a public declaration that an insurrection exists and calls for 75,000 militia to stop the rebellion. -
A fight took place in western Virginia which is the first clash between Union and Confederate forces in the east. -
Battle of Big Bethel was the first land battle of the Civil War in Virginia. -
The Battle of Bull Run was the first major full-scale battle of the Civil War. -
The first major battle of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. -
Fort Hatteras at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, falls to Union naval forces. This begins the first Union efforts to close southern ports along the Carolina coast. -
Lexington, Missouri falls to Confederate forces under Sterling Price. -
The Battle of Ball's Bluff was an early battle of the American Civil War fought in Loudoun County, Virginia, on October 21, 1861, in which Union Army forces under Major General George B. McClellan suffered a humiliating defeat. -
Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky. The Union victory weakened the Confederate hold on the state. -
Surrender of Fort Henry, Tennessee. The loss of this southern fort on the Tennessee River opened the door to Union control of the river. -
Battle of Roanoke Island, North Carolina. A Confederate defeat, the battle resulted in Union occupation of eastern North Carolina and control of Pamlico Sound, to be used as Northern base for further operations against the southern coast. -
Surrender of Fort Donelson, Tennessee. This primary southern fort on the Cumberland River left the river in Union hands. -
Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America. -
The Union victory loosened the Confederate hold on Missouri and disrupted southern control of a portion of the Mississippi River. -
The naval battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, the first "ironclads", is fought in Hampton Roads, Virginia. -
The Battle of Shiloh, the first major battle in Tennessee.The Union victory further secures the career of Union General Ulysses S. Grant. -
General "Stonewall" Jackson attacks Union forces at Winchester and successfully drives them from the city. The victory is the culmination of his 1862 Valley Campaign. -
The bloodiest single day of the Civil War. Following the Union victory, President Lincoln will introduce the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order that freed every slave in the Confederate States. -
The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect and freed slaves in states not under Union control. -
Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg surround the occupied city. General Ulysses S. Grant is assigned to command the troops there and begins immediate plans to relieve the besieged Union army. -
Fought between the Union Army and the Confederate Army of Tennessee, the Union victory frees middle Tennessee from Confederate control and boosts the North. -
A Confederate victory that stopped an attempted flanking movement by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against the left of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. -
The largest predominantly cavalry engagement of the American Civil War, as well as the largest ever to take place on American soil -
Confederate troops defeat Union troops, clearing the Shenandoah Valley of Union forces. -
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War. -
The Union Army of the Cumberland under General William Rosecrans is defeated and nearly routed by the Confederate Army. -
The Union victory sends the Confederate Army south into Georgia where General Bragg reorganizes his forces before resigning from command on November 30. -
Abraham Lincoln Issues his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which would pardon those who participated in the "existing rebellion" if they take an oath to the Union. -
A seven-man submergible craft, attacked the USS Housatonic outside of Charleston, South Carolina. Struck by the submarine's torpedo, the Housatonic broke apart and sank, taking all but five of her crew with her. -
The first major battle of the Red River Campaign in Louisiana. -
The Union Army defeats the attempt by Confederate forces under General Richard Taylor to drive them out of Louisiana. -
Confederate cavalry under Nathan Bedford Forrest attacked the Union at Fort Pillow, located on the Mississippi River. -
Lee responded to the orders of the campaign by attacking the Union column in the dense woods and underbrush of the Wilderness, west of Fredericksburg, Virginia. -
Confederate cavalry under General J.E.B. Stuart blocked a force of Union cavalry under General Philip Sheridan. -
Relentless and bloody Union attacks fail to dislodge Lee's army from its strong line of defense. -
Abraham Lincoln is nominated by his party for a second term as president. -
Confederates successfully attack and drive troops of the Army of the Shenandoah from their camps on the banks of Cedar Creek south of Middletown, Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln is reelected president of the United States. -
For his second term, President Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated. -
Confederate troops under General John B. Gordon attack and briefly capture the Union fort in the Petersburg siege lines in an attempt to prevent Union plans for a late March assault. -
The Confederate defeat at Five Forks initiates General Lee's decision to abandon the Petersburg and Richmond siege lines. -
General Lee abandons both Petersburg and Richmond, and moves his army west in hopes of joining Confederate forces -
A early morning attempt to break through Union forces blocking the route west to Danville, Virginia. That afternoon Lee signed the document of surrender. -
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, DC. -
General Richard Taylor surrenders Confederate forces in the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana. -
Confederate President Jefferson Davis is captured by Irwinville, Georgia. -
The Confederates take the victory at the final battle in Palmito Ranch, Texas. -
After a lot of battles and encounters, the Civil War ended. -
Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite -
Freedmans Bureau Bill was passed by Congress on this date. -
Texas repealed the Secessionist Convention. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was vetoed by Andrew Johnson. -
The Civil Rights Act that was vetoed was overruled. -
The 14th amendment was passed by Congress. -
David Farragut is given the Admiral position. -
On this date, Andrew Johnson officially declares the war is over. -
A proclamation was made with Texas to make peace. -
South Carolina rejected the 14th amendment. -
Yellow Fever took the lives of many people, mainly people who fought during the Civil War. -
African American people in Washington D.C. were given the right to vote -
Nebraska is admitted as the 37th state of America. -
The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law in force from 1867 to 1887 that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate. -
Even with the reconstruction, Virginia denies African American people the right to vote. -
Congress passes the 2nd reconstruction act on this date. -
The United States bough Alaska from Russia. -
The Treaty of Alaska was officially ratified. -
Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, forced to resign. -
Ulysses S. Grant interim Secretary of War.