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November 1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected President
As a consequence of Lincoln’s election, the South Carolina legislature votes to secede
from the Union.
January - March 1861
Star of the West
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede from the Union.
Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the sixteenth President of the United States.
April - June
Fort Sumter is bombarded and
Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina secede from the Union.
Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy.
First Battle of Manassas.
November - December
George B. McClellan is named general-in-chief of the Union armies.
January - March 1862
Fort Henry, Tennessee and Fort Donelson.
Monitor and Merrimack,
April - June
Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee
, Robert E. Lee takes over command of the Confederate army
September
The Battle of Antietam
January - March 1863
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln signs a federal draft act.
July
The Battle of Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Draft riots erupt in New York City
November
Gettysburg Address
January 1864
Ulysses S. Grant is given command all of the armies of the United States.
June
General William T. Sherman captures Atlanta
Lincoln is reelected President, with Andrew Johnson as Vice President.
November
Sherman leaves Atlanta and begins his “march to the sea,”
January 1865
Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolishes slavery throughout the
United States.
April 9
Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox.
April 14
John Wilkes Booth shoots President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater