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Abraham Lincoln is selected as the U.S. presidential candidate for the Republican Party. -
A well-organized force of militia and U.S. Army soldiers seek out the Paiutes and defeat them in the final battle of the war. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States of America. He is the first republican president that opposes the spread of slavery. -
This is the start of a 7-year conflict. As South Carolina discusses succeeding from the United States of America -
Senator John J. Crittenden proposes the so-called Crittenden Compromise hoping to resolve the U.S. secession crisis. -
South Carolina becomes the first-ever state to secede from the United States of America. This provided the following point for more slave states. -
Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Weed Convention at Montgomery, Alabama. -
Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as the 16th President of the United States, and Hannibal Hamlin is sworn in as Vice President of the United States. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter is the first official battle of the war where the Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The Confederacy fired shots first and it lasted 2 days. In the end no casualties after they surrendered the fort -
Following the Battle of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issues a public declaration that insurrection exists and calls for 75,000+ militia. With this, another 4 southern states end up succeeding from the Union. -
The first clash between the Union and Confederates causing in casualties of the war. 30 casualties 4 Union 24 confederate -
The First Battle of Bull Run is the first major battle of the Civil war. In Prince William County, Virginia where Irvin McDowell met P.G.T Beauregard. This fight ended in a Confederate win and 4,700 casualties, 2,950 for the Union, and 1,750 for the Confederates. -
The Union Army led by Nathaniel Lyon, Attacked Confederate troops but after a terrible day Lyon is killed and his army pushed back in another win for the Confederates -
Union forces take down Fort Hatteras in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. This was the first attempt of closing ports along the Carolina coast -
Lexington Missouri falls to the confederates under sterling pierce. -
Colonel Edward D. Baker, led troops across the Potomac River only to be forced back to the edge of the river where he was killed. The Union withdrawal turned into a rout with many soldiers drowning while trying to re-cross the waters of the Potomac River. -
A union victory in this battle weakend the Confederate hold on the state. Union casualties amounted to 40 killed, 207 wounded, and 15 missing; Confederate losses amounted to 125 killed, 309 wounded, and 95 missing -
General Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first major victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee. -
The first battle between two ironclad warships, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia. -
The battle begins when Union forces under General George B. McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia. -
Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennesse -
Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut occupy the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana, securing access to the Mississippi. -
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law. -
Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan. -
Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Sharpsburg, Maryland, on the bloodiest day in U.S. history (with over 22,000 casualties). -
Preliminary announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln -
President Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army. For having the "slows". -
President Lincoln issues the second executive order of the Emancipation Proclamation, specifying ten Confederate states in which slaves were to be freed. -
In Richmond, Virginia, about 5,000 people, mostly poor women, riot to protest the exorbitant price of bread. -
The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, unsuccessfully assaults Confederate-held Fort Wagner but their valiant fighting still proves the worth of African American soldiers during the war. Their commander, Colonel Robert Shaw is shot leading the attack and was buried with his men (450 Union, 175 Confederate). -
General Robert E. Lee defeats Union forces with 13,000 Confederate casualties, among them Stonewall Jackson (lost to friendly fire), and 17,500 Union casualties. -
The siege of Vicksburg begins (ends Saturday, July 4, when 30,189 Confederate men surrender). -
West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state Breaking off from Virginia -
Battle of Gettysburg: Union forces under George G. Meade turn back a Confederate invasion by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg, the largest battle of the war (28,000 Confederate casualties, 23,000 Union). -
Ulysses S. Grant and the Union army capture the Confederate city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, after the town surrendered. The siege lasted 47 days. -
Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (Davis refuses the request upon receipt).
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Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. President Jefferson Davis refuses the request. -
President Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. -
U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.