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Abraham Lincoln
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President Abraham Lincoln tried to mediate between the northern and southern states, and ended up entering a war that he avoided until the end. ... Although Lincoln was an opponent convinced of repression, the cohesion of the Union became more important to him than the abolition of slavery.
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The first secession convention meets in Columbia, south california
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South Caroline sucedes from the union
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Six additional southern states sucede from the union
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The southern states that seceded create a government at Montgomery, Alabama, and the confederate states of America are formed
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Jefferson Davis is appointed the first president of the confederate states of America at Montgomery, Alabama
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southern forces fire upon fort summer, south Caroline. The civil War has formally begun.
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President Lincoln issues a public declaration that an insurrection exists and calls for 75,000 militia to stop the rebellion
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To thwart the confederate threat in northern Virginia, a series of earthworks and forts are engineered to surround the City of Washington.
