Abraham Lincoln is elected president.
African Americans were being auctioned and sold into slavery.
@ 4:30 AM the confederates open fired cannons at Fort Sumter, in Charleston, South Carolina.
Abraham Lincoln issues a proclamation calling for 75,000 military men, and a special succession of congress for July 4th.
President Lincoln signs a proclamation to block southern posts. For the duration of the war the block limits the ability of the rural south to receive supplies.
Lincoln states the war is " a peoples contest... a struggle for maintaining in the world that form, ans substance of government, whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men".
The Union suffers a defeat at Bull Run, 25 miles southwest of Washington.
President Lincoln issues general war Number 1, calling for all United States naval and land forces to begin a general advance by February 22, which is George Washington's birthday.
Confederates surprise the Union soldiers on the Tennessee River, results in a bitter struggle, leaving 13,000 Union soldiers dead, and 10,000 Confederate soldiers dead.
75,000 Union soldiers are defeated by 50,000 Confederates at the second battle of Bull Run. Once again the army will retreat to Washington.
The bloodiest day in U.S. military history.
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves issued by President Lincoln.
Was a huge victory for Robert E Lee and the Confederate Army.
President Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation, it freed all slaves in territories held by Confederates.
The Union Army is defeated by the Confederates which is a much smaller army.
The tide of the war changes. It turns against the South, the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
Was a series of battles in Tennessee.
Grant makes a mistake and looses 7,000 soldiers in 20 minutes
The U.S. congress approves the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution, to abolish slavery.
General Lee surrenders his Confederate Army, to General Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
This night Lincoln and his wife, see the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. John Wilkes Booth shot the president.
The 13th amendment to the United States Consitution passed by congress on January 31,1865 is finally ratified, Slavery is abolished.
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