civil+war+timeline

Welcome to the Civil War timeline. Enjoy while we inform.

Nov. 6,1860- Abraham Lincoln gets elected president.

Dec. 20, 1860- South Carolina secedes from the Union, in the following months Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded.

Feb.9, 1861- The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis as president.

April 12, 1861- General Pierre Beauregard attacks the Union at Fort Sumter and the Civil War begins.

April 17, 1861- Virginia secedes follwed by Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.

July 21, 1861- General "Stonewall" Jackson fires at Bull Run and the Union is defeated.

Apil 6-7, 1861- Confederates attack at Shiloh against General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union.

Sept. 17, 1862- Bloodiest day in U.S. history, General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate Army fired at Antietam in Maryland.

Dec. 13, 1862- The army of the Potomac under General Burnside is defeated at Fredricksburg, VA.

January 1, 1863- Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in Confederate lands.

March 3, 1863- U.S. Congress issues the draft.

May 1-4, 1863- The Union army under "Fighting Joe" Hooker is defeated at Chancellorsville, VA.

May 10, 1863 General "Stonewall" Jackson dies from his wounds and is replaced by General Meade.

July 1-3, 1863- The Confederates lose the battle against the Union in Gettysburg, PN.

July 4, 1863- Confederates surrender in Vicksburg, MS, giving up the Mississsippi River after 6 weeks of siege.

Sept. 2, 1864- Atlanta GA is captured by William T. Sherman.

Nov. 15, 1864- After Sherman destorys Atlanta's warehouse and railroads, Sherman and 62,000 soldiers march to sea destroying everything in path.

March 4, 1865- Lincoln is innagurated and says' "With malice towards none; with charity for all... let us strive on to finish the work we are in...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselve, and with all nations."

April 9, 1865- General Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in VA.

April 14, 1865- Lincoln and wife, Mary, attend "Our American Cousin" at Fords Theatre; where Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, an actor.

Aprl 15 1865- Abraham Lincoln dies and V.P. Andrew Jackson becomes the new president.

April 26, 1865- John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, is shot and killed in a barn in VA.

In May- The rest of the Confederate's army surrender and the Nation is a whole again.