Events of the US Civil War

Date Event
12/20/1860 The South Secedes
3/11/1861 The South Creates a Government
2/1/1861 The South Seizes Federal Forts
3/4/1861 Lincoln's Inauguration
4/12/1861 Attack on Fort Sumter
4/17/1861 - 5/20/1861 Four More States Join the Confederacy
7/21/1861 First Battle of Bull Run
7/31/1861 General McDowell Is Replaced
7/27/1861 Northern Blockade of the South
1/27/1862 Lincoln Issues War Order
3/8/1862 McClellan Loses Command
3/8/1862 - 3/9/1862 Battle of Monitor and Merrimack
4/6/1862 - 4/7/1862 The Battle of Shiloh
3/27/1862 - 4/26/1862 The Peninsular Campaign
3/23/1862 - 6/8/1862 Stonewall Jackson Defeats Union Forces
5/31/1862 - 6/1/1862 The Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks)
6/26/1862 - 7/1/1862 The Seven Days' Battles
7/11/1862 Halleck Named Chief of Union Army
7/1/1862 - 8/30/1862 Pope's Campaign
9/17/1862 Battle of Antietam
12/11/1862 - 12/15/1862 Battle of Fredericksburg
1/1/1863 Emancipation Proclamation
3/3/1863 The First National Conscription Act
4/30/1863 - 5/6/1863 The Battle of Chancellorsville
5/1/1863 - 5/30/1863 The Vicksburg Campaign
6/12/1863 - 7/23/1863 The Gettysburg Campaign
9/19/1863 - 9/20/1863 The Battle of Chickamauga
5/1/1864 - 6/23/1864 Grant's Wilderness Campaign
6/13/1864 Confederate Troops Approach Washington, D.C
8/1/1864 - 9/12/1864 General William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
11/15/1864 - 12/21/1864 General William T. Sherman's March to the Sea
11/8/1864 Abraham Lincoln Is Re-Elected
1/24/1865 The Fall of the Confederacy
1/3/1865 - 4/26/1865 Sherman's March through Carolina
3/25/1865 - 4/1/1865 Fallen Richmond
4/7/1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
4/14/1865 The Assassination of President Lincoln
4/26/1865 - 5/27/1865 Final Surrenders among Remaining Confederate Troops