Civil War Timeline

By GeorgeM2027

  • Republican Party is formed

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

  • Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy

  • New York City draft riots

  • Congress passes the 13th Amendment

  • Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter

  • President Lincoln elected president

  • South Carolina votes to secede from the US

  • Jefferson davis elected president of confederacy

  • Lincoln gives his second inaugural address

  • Lincoln suspends habeas corpus

  • Confederates surrender at Vicksburg

  • First Battle of Bull Run is fought

  • The Merrimac and the Monitor fight of the Virginia coast

  • Battle of Shiloh

  • Robert E. Lee is named commander of the Army of Northern Virginia

  • Atlanta is captured

  • battle of antietem

  • Battle of fredereksburg

  • Emancipation Proclamation is announced

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

  • Battle of gettysburg

  • Lincoln gives his Gettysburg Address

  • Lincoln beats mclellen in order to be re elected

  • Sherman begins his March to the Sea:

  • Freedmen’s Bureau is created

  • Richmond falls to the Union Army

  • Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox

  • President Lincoln assasinated

  • John Wilkes Booth is killed