1860 – On the 27 day of December, the United States flag was raised over Fort Sumter, as South Carolina Troops occupy Charleston forts.
1861 – On the 2 day of January, South Carolina troops seized the old Fort Johnson, in Charleston Harbor.
1861 – On the 3 day of January, Georgia State troops seized Fort Pulaski before Federal troops could occupy it.
1861 – On the 4 day of January, Alabama takes the United States Arsenal at Mount Vernon.
1861 – On the 5 day of January, Merchant vessel, Star of the West leaves New York for Fort Sumter, with supplies and 250 troops.
1861 – On the 8 day of January, the Secretary of the Interior, Jacob Thompson of Mississippi, who was the last Southerner in the United States Cabinet resigned.
1861 – On the 9 day of January the State of Mississippi secedes from the Union. The second state that seceded.
1861 – On the 10 day of January, the State of Florida seceded from the Union. The third state that seceded.
1861 – On the 11 day of January, the State of Alabama was the fourth state that seceded from the Union.
1861 – On the 14 day of January, the Louisiana state troops seized Fort Pike, near New Orleans, in Louisiana.
1861 – On the 16, day of January, the Arkansas legislature completes a bill calling for a referendum on secession.
1861 – On the 17 day of January, the Crittenden Compromise, proposed several amendments to the United States Constitution, in order to save the Union. He was killed in the United States Senate.
1861 – On the 20 day of January, Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mississippi was taken by secessionists.
1861 – On the 24 day of January, Georgia State troops took over the United States Arsenal, at Augusta.
1861 – On the 26 day of January, Louisiana was the sixth state that seceded from the Union.
1861 – On the 29 day of January, Kansas was admitted to the Union, as the thirty-fourth state.
1861 – On the 4 day of February, The First session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate State of American was held.
1861 – On the 9 day of February, Jefferson Davis was elected provisional president of the Confederacy.
1861 – On the 23 day of February, Texas approved secession, by a wide margin.
1861 – On the 4 day of March, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as president of the United States.
1861 – On the 19 day of March, Fort Clark, Fort Inge and Fort Lancaster were surrendered by Federal troops.
1861 – On the 21 day of March, Louisiana ratifies the Confederate Constitution.
1861 – On the 11 day of April, Confederate authorities demand the surrender of Fort Sumter.
1861 – On the 12 day of April, Fort Sumter was fire on. The American Civil War began.
1861 – On the 13 day of April, after 34 hours of bombardment, Fort Sumter was forced to surrender.
1861 – On the 17 day of April, Virginia adopts bill of secession.
1861 – On the 22 day of April, Robert E Lee was appointed Commander of the Virginia Forces.
1861 – On the 29 day of April, Maryland House of Delegates votes against secession.
1861 – On the 30 day of April, the New York Yacht Club offers the services of their vessels to the Federal Government.
1861 – On the 6 day of May, Arkansas and Tennessee pass secession bills.
1861 – On the 16 day of May, Tennessee committed to the Confederacy.
1861 – On the 18 day of May, Arkansas was admitted to the Confederacy.
1861 – On the 20 day of May, North Carolina joins the Confederacy.
1861 – On the 20 day of May, Kentucky issues a proclamation of Neutrality.
1861 – On the 30 day of May, the Confederates raise the Ship, the USS. Merrimack, at Norfolk, in the State of Virginia.
1861 – On the 11 day of June, part of Virginia, became West Virginia, at Wheeling. They Stay with the Union.
1861 – On the 13 day of June, President Jefferson Davis and the Southern States observed a fast day, for the war effort.
1861 – On the 23 day of June, Union Balloonist Thaddeus Lowe observed and mapped Confederate lines over northern Virginia.
1861 – On the 24 day of June, two Union Gunboats shell Confederate positions at Matthias Point, in the State of Virginia.
1861 – On the 14 day of July, The Union blockades Wilmington, North Carolina.
1861 – On the 21 day of July, Union General Irvin McDowell was defeated at the first Battle of Bull Run or Manassas, in the State of Virginia.
1861 – On the 27 day of July, Major General George B. McClellan assumes command of the Union Division of the Army of the Potomac.
1861 – On the 28 day of July, the Confederate troop occupied New Madrid, Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
1861 – On the 2 day of August, the Federal Congress passed the first national income tax is passed, which called for 3% on incomes over $800.00.
1861 – On the 3 day of August, is made, at Hampton Roads, in the State of Virginia. It was launched from the deck of a Union vessel.
1861 – On the 4 day of August, a meeting is held in New York, to combat intemperance in the Union Army.
1861 – On the 7 day of August, the Confederate forces, burned the Village of Hampton, Virginia. It was near Fort Monroe.
1861 – On the 10 day of August, the Confederate troops were victorious at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, near Springfield, in the State of Missouri.
1861 – On the 14 day of August, Major General John Charles Fremont declares martial law, in the St. Louis area.
1861 – On the 19 day of August, Confederate Congress became spit, both North and South, in Missouri
1861 – On the 20 day of August, Major General George McClellan assumes command of Army of the Potomac.
1861 – On the 28 day of August, Northern forces capture Fort Hatteras, North Carolina. They cut off blockade runners.
1861 – On the 11 day of September, General Robert E. Lee begins the Cheat Mountain Campaign, which ends badly for Lee.
1861 – On the 6 day of October, A Confederate blockade runner alert is captured by Federal navy of Charleston, South Carolina.
1861 – On the 11 day of October, Brigadier General William S. Rosecrans assumes command of the Federal Department, of Western Virginia.
1861 – On the 12 day of October, the first Ironclad of the Union navy, is launched at Carondelet, Missouri.
1861 – On the 21 day of October, the Federal troops were defeated at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, near Leesburg, Virginia.
1861 – On the 24 day of October, Western Union completed the first transcontinental telegraph.
1861 – On the 25 day of October, the keel of the ironclad, the USS Monitor was laid at Greenpoint, Long Island.
1861 – On the 29 day of October, the largest combined land-sea expedition ever mounted by the United States left Hampton Roads, Virginia, for the Carolina Coast and Port Royal.
1861 – On the 1 day of November, Major General George B. McClellan succeeds retiring Lieutenant General Winfield Scott as General in Chief of the Union Army of the United States.
1861 – On the 2 day of November, Major General John C. Fremont was relieved of command of the Union troops in the Western Department.
1861 – On the 12 day of November, The Confederate blockade runner, the Fingal, bought in England, arrived in Savannah with military supplies.
1861 – On the 15 day of November, the YMCA organized the United States Christian Commission for service to Federal Soldiers.
1861 – On the 21 day of November, President Jefferson Davis named Judah P Benjamin, Secretary of War.
1861 – On the 26 day of November, A convention at Wheeling adopts a constitution for a new state called West Virginia. The new state was created by the secession from Virginia.
1861 – On the 28 day of November, The Southern Congress officially admitted Missouri to the Confederate States of America. The State of Missouri was torn between the north and south, and a large amount of soldiers were fighting for the North.
1861 – On the 1 day of December, The United States gunboat, the Penquin captured the blockade runner, the Albion of Nassau off Charleston, South Carolina and confiscated the cargo.
1861 – On the 10 day of December, The Southern Congress, in Richmond, in the State of Virginia, officially admitted Kentucky to the Confederate States of America. The State of Kentucky was torn between the north and south, with a large number of soldiers, in the Northern Army.
1861 – On the 11 day of December, while suffering from the Northern blockade, Charleston was alarmed by a disastrous fire that traveled through the business district.
1861 – On the 14 day of December, Brigadier General H. H. Sibley assumed command of the Confederate troops on the upper Rio Grande and in the New Mexico and Arizona Territories.
1861 – On the 17 day of December, the Union sinks several old ships loaded with large stones, to block shipping, in the Savannah, Georgia Harbor.
1862 – On the 28 day of December, the Union Army, of the Frontier pushes back confederate troops at Dripping Springs, in Arkansas, capturing Van Buren, Arkansas.
1862 – On the 2 day of January, South Carolina troops seized old Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor.
1862 – On the 15 day of January, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War.
1862 – On the 18 day of January, The Territory of Arizona joined the Confederacy.
1862 – On the 27 day of January, President Lincoln issued a General War Order Number 1, ordering Union forces to advance.
1862 – On the 10 day of February, the Remainder of the Confederate “Mosquito” fleet was destroyed at Elizabeth City, in the State of North Carolina.
1862 – On the 13 day of February, the Union troops attack Fort Donelson, in Tennessee, on the Cumberland River.
1862 – On the 16 day of February, the Confederate troops surrender Fort Donelson, in Tennessee, to General Ulysses S. Grant.
1862 – On the 19 day of February, the New Confederate Congress orders the release of 2,000 Northern prisoners of war, for exchange.
1862 – On the 21 day of February, the Confederates attack Union forces at Valverde, in the State of New Mexico Territory.
1862 – On the 22 day of February, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as President on the Confederacy, in Richmond, in the State of Virginia.
1862 – On the 24 day of February, Union troops led by Nathaniel Banks occupy Harpers Ferry, in the State of Virginia.
1862 – On the 25 day of February, On the Federal War Department takes control of all telegraph lines to facilitate military moves.
1862 – On the 28 day of February, The Confederacy observes a day of fasting and prayer.
1862 – On the 5 day of March, General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard assumed command of the Confederate Army, of the State of Mississippi.
1862 – On the 11 day of March, President Lincoln relieved George B. McClellan from his post as General-in-Chief of the United State Army.
1862 – On the 16 day of March, Martial Law was instituted by the United States in San Francisco in response to rumors of possible attack.
1862 – On the 23 day of March, the first Battle of Kernstown, in the State of Virginia, starts the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
1862 – On the 31 day of March, President Lincoln recalls some of McClellan’s troops to help protect Washington, D. C.
1862 – On the 16 day of April, President Lincoln signed a bill that ended slavery in the District of Columbia.
1862 – On the 28 day of April, at Nassau in the Bahamas, British Oreto arrives to be outfitted as a Confederate raider, the CSS Florida.
1862 – On the 15 day of May, Heavy fire from the Confederate guns of Fort Darling stopped the Union navy’s effort to reach Richmond by the James River.
1862 – On the 25 day of May, Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson attacked Union troops on a Sunday at Winchester, in the State of Virginia.
1862 – On the 31 day of May, the Battle of Seven Pines at Fair Oaks, in the State of Virginia, began.
1862 – On the 4 day of June, Southern planters burn huge stocks of cotton on the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers to keep it from being captured.
1862 – On the 8 day of June, Stonewall Jackson’s troops fought with the Union in the Battle of Cross Keys, in the State of Virginia.
1862 – On the 15 day of June, Jeb Stuart was able to run around General George B. McClellan’s troops, on the Virginia Peninsula.
1862 – On the 16 day of June, Union troops under Brigadier General H. W. Benham attacked the Confederate works at Secessionville, in the State of South Carolina.
1862 – On the 17 day of June, General Braxton Bragg succeeded General Beauregard as commander of the Western Department of the Confederate Army.
1862 – On the 18 day of June, Northern troops occupy the Cumberland Gap.
1862 – On the 19 day of June, President Lincoln signed a bill, prohibiting slavery in the Territories of the United States.
1862 – On the 22 day of June, Thirty Sisters of Charity arrived at Fort Monroe, in the State of Virginia. They ministered to the sick and the wounded of the Army of the Potomac.
1862- On the 29 day of June, the Union troops were driven from Savage’s Station, east of Richmond were forced to leave 2,500 sick and wounded behind.
1862 – On the 15 day of July, the Confederate ironclad, the Arkansas met Union vessels on the Yazoo River north of Vicksburg, damaging three of them.
1862 – On the 19 day of July, the Confederates raided Brownsville, in the State of Tennessee.
1862 – On the 23 day of July, Major General Henry Wager Halleck assumed command of the Army of the United States.
1862 – On the 9 day of August, the Union Army under John Pope, clashed with Stonewall Jackson’s troops, at the Battle of Cedar Mountain in the State of Virginia.
1862 – On the 11 day of August, Confederate guerrillas capture Independence, in the State of Missouri.
1862 – On the 16 day of August, Union troops were defeated in an action near Lone Jack, in the State of Missouri. The Confederates were driven off by Northern reinforcements.
1862 – On the 17 day of August, Major General James E. B. Stuart was assigned command of the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
1862 – On the 22 day of August, in a raid of Catlett’s Station, in the State of Virginia, Jeb Stuart captured Union General Popes baggage train.
1862 – On the 24 day of August, near the Azores, the CSS Alabama was commissioned by the Confederacy.
1862 – On the 26 day of August, the Second Battle of Bull Run or Manassas Campaign began.
1862 – On the 30 day of August, the Second Battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, ended in loss for the Union.
1862 – On the 14 day of September, the Union forces defeated the Confederates at the Battles of South Mountain and Cramton’s Gap, in the State of Virginia.
1862 – On the 15 day of September, the Confederates captured Harpers Ferry, in the State of Virginia. They took 12,000 prisoners.
1862 – On the 16 day of September, General Robert Edward Lee gathers his forces and forms lines along Antietam Creek.
1862 – On the 17 day of September, the Battle of Antietam stopped Confederate advance into the North.
1862 – On the 18 day of September, General Robert E. Lee takes his army out of Maryland, under cover of night.
1862 – On the 22 day of September, President Lincoln declares all slaves to be free as of January 1, 1863.
1862 – On the 24 day of September, the fourteen Northern governors met at Altoona Pennsylvania, to approve emancipation.
1862 – On the 10 day of October, Confederate President Jefferson Davis asked the State of Virginia for a draft of 4,500 slaves to work on the completion of the fortifications of Richmond, in the State of Virginia.
1862 – On the 18 day of October, John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate raiders defeated the Federal Cavalry near Lexington, Kentucky.
1862 – On the 22 day of October, the Confederate cavalry took over London, Kentucky.
1862 – On the 28 day of October, Confederate Major General John C Breckinridge assumed command of the Army of Middle Tennessee.
1862 – On the 4 day of November, General Ulysses S. Grant troops occupy La Grange and Grand Junction, in the State of Tennessee.
1862 – On the 10 day of November, President Lincoln ended the command of Major General George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1862 – On the 14 day of November, President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy, appointed James A. Seddon, Secretary of War.
1862 – On the 4 day of December, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston assumed command in the West.
1862 – On the 7 day of December, Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan and his men attacked a Union garrison at Hartsville, in the State of Tennessee.
1862 – On the 12 day of December, On the Yazoo River, in the State of Mississippi, a Union Ironclad, the Cairo struck a mine and sank. The crew escaped.
1862 – On the 28 day of December, the Federal Army, of the frontier pushed back Confederates at Dripping Springs, Arkansas, capturing Van Buren, Arkansas.
1862 – On the 30 day of December, the USS Monitor, was a hero of the battle with the Merrimack, founders off Cape Hatteras, in heavy seas, 16 officers and men were lost.
1863 – On the 1 day of January, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
1863 – On the 7 day of January, three blockade runners successfully broke through the Federal cordon and arrived at Charleston, South Carolina.
1863 – On the 12 day of January, The third session of the First Confederate Congress gathered at Richmond to hear president Jefferson Davis Speak of the State of the Confederacy.
1863 – On the 28 day of January, a mass meeting in St Louis ratifies the Emancipation Proclamation.
1863 – On the 26 day of February, The Cherokee Indian National Council repeals the Ordinance of Secession, proclaims for the Union.
1863 – On the 3 day of March, President Lincoln signed the first federal draft act, imposing liability on all male citizens between 20 and 45.
1863 – On the 10 day of March, President Lincoln issued a proclamation of amnesty to soldiers absent without leave, if they report before April, 1.
1863 – On the 13 day of March, an explosion at the Confederate Ordnance factory, in Richmond, in the State of Virginia, killed or injured 69.
1863 – On the 15 day of March, in San Francisco, authorities seized, the Schooner, the J. M. Chapman, about to depart with alleged secessionists and six Dahlgreen guns.
1863 – On the 1 day of May, the Battle of Chancellorsville in the State of Virginia, began.
1863 – On the 2 day of May, General Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Jackson was wounded by one of his own men, by accident. Command of his cavalry passed to General James E. B. Jeb Stuart.
1863 – On the 4 day of May, the Battle of Chancellorsville ended in a southern victory.
1863 – On the 14 day of May, the Union forces occupied Jackson, in the State of Mississippi.
1863 – On the 19 day of May, General U. S. Grant launched the first attack against Vicksburg, in the State of Mississippi.
1863 – On the 21 day of May, Union forces began a siege of Port Hudson, in the State of Louisiana.
1863 – On the 7 day of June, the Union troops capture the Brierfield Plantation of Jefferson Davis and is brother Joseph Davis.
1863 – On the 9 day of June, the Southern troops under Jeb Stuart met Alfred Pleasonton’s Union cavalry, at Brandy Station, in the State of Virginia.
1863 – On the 20 day of June, the State of West Virginia was admitted to the Union, as the 35th state.
1863 – On the 26 day of June, the Confederate General Early and some of his troops enter Gettysburg, in the State of Pennsylvania.
1863 – On the 28 day of June, General Robert E. Lee diverts Confederate forces from an intended drive on Harrisburg, in the State of Pennsylvania. He then, marched his troops toward Gettysburg, in the State of Pennsylvania.
1863 – On the 1 day of July, the Battle of Gettysburg began.
1863 – On the 2 day of July, the Battle of Gettysburg continued as Confederates unsuccessfully attempt to overrun Little Round top and Big Round Top. Two battles as part of the greater Battle of Gettysburg.
1863 – On the 3 day of July, the Battle of Gettysburg ends in a Union victory.
1863 – On the 4 day of July, Vicksburg surrendered to General Grant and Union troops, which gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
1863 – On the 6 day of July, battles go on at Boonsborough, Hagerstown and Williamsport, in the State of Maryland, as Lee withdrew from Gettysburg, in the State of Pennsylvania.
1863 – On the 16 day of July, the Confederates under General Joseph E. Johnston abandon Jackson, in the State of Mississippi, to Union General William T. Sherman and his troops.
1863 – On the 26 day of July, Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan and his troops surrenders his force of 364 men at Salineville, in the State of Ohio.
1863 – On the 8 day of August, in the wake of the defeat at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee offers to resign as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. President Davis rejects his offer.
1863 – On the 12 day of August, President Lincoln refused to give Major General John A. McClernand a new command, after he was relieved of his command at Vicksburg, by General U. S. Grant.
1863 – On the 29 day of August, the southern submersible, the H. L. Hunley sank, in Charleston Harbor, in the State of South Carolina. Five men were lost.
1863 – On the 5 day of September, the British did not deliver two ironclads, that they had built for the Confederates, because of the pressure from the United States.
1863 – On the 8 day of September, the Confederates fight off an attack by Union gunboats and transports at Sabine Pass, on the Texas Louisiana border.
1863 – On the 9 day of September, Federal troops occupied Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1863 – On the 13 day of September, the Southern cavalry seized 20 crewmen of the USS Rattler, while they attended church, at Rodney, in the State of Mississippi.
1863 – On the 20 day of September, on the second day of the Battle of the Battle of Chickamauga, the Confederates cause Northern regroup.
1863 – On the 21 day of September, Union troops occupy a position in and around the Chattanooga, in the State of Tennessee.
1863 – On the 28 day of September, Federal Generals Alexander McCook and T. I. Crittenden are relieved of their commands and ordered to a court of inquiry after the Battle of Chickamauga.
1863 – On the 3 day of October, the Union War Department ordered the enlistment of Black Soldiers in the slave States of Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee.
1863 – On the 5 day of October, the Confederate torpedo boat, the David with a four man crew, attacked two Federal ironclads outside Charleston harbor.
1863 – On the 15 day of October, the Confederate submersible, the H. I. Hunley sank for a second time during a practice dive, in Charleston Harbor. Seven men including Hunley, the inventor died.
1863 – On the 17 day of October, President Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 300,000 more volunteers for the Union Army.
1863 – On the 30 day of October, the Unconditional Unionists of Arkansas met at Fort Smith, to name a representative to Congress.
1863 – On the 17 day of November, the Confederate siege of Knoxville, in the State of Tennessee began and the siege of Chattanooga continued.
1863 – On the 19 day of November, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the new national cemetery.
1863 – On the 27 day of November, General John Hunt Morgan and several of his officers escape from the Ohio State Penitentiary and manage to reach Confederate territory.
1863 – On the 15 day of December, Confederate Major General Jubal A. Early is assigned to the Shenandoah Valley District.
1863 – On the 1 day of January, The Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
1864 – On the 22 day of January, Major General William Rosecrans was named commander of the Union Department of Missouri.
1864 – On the 2 day of February, United States Gunboat, the Underwriter was captured and set afire by the Confederate Navy, near New Berne, in the State of North Carolina.
1864 – On the 5 day of February, General William T. Sherman and the Union Army marched into Jackson, in the State of Mississippi, in route to Meridian.
1864 – On the 14 day of February, General William T. Sherman’s troops captured Meridian, in the State of Mississippi.
1864 – On the 27 day of February, Near Americus, in the State of Georgia, Union prisoners of war started to arrive at the unfinished camp Sumter or Andersonville prison camp.
1864 – On the 1 day of March, President Lincoln nominated Major General Ulysses S. Grant for the recently revived regular army rank of Lieutenant General.
1864 – On the 12 day of March, Red River Campaign began under the Union General Nathaniel Banks.
1864 – On the 17 day of March, Lieutenant General U. S. Grant formally assumed the command of the Army of the United States.
1864 – On the 24 day of March, President Lincoln met with General U. S. Grant, General in Chief of the United States Army, at the White House.
1864 – On the 30 day of March, the Confederates attacked Snyder’s Bluff, in the State of Mississippi.
1864 – On the 5 day of May, the Battle of the Wilderness began.
1864 – On the 7 day of May, General William T. Sherman began his march on Atlanta, in the State of Georgia.
1864 – On the 11 day of May, the Confederate General James E. B. Jeb Stuart was mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, in the State of Virginia.
1864 – On the 13 day of May, the Confederate Cavalry began a new campaign north of the Arkansas River.
1864 – On the 2 day of June, the Battle of Cold Harbor continued. Federal troops under David Hunter fought at Covington, in at the beginning of the Lynchburg Campaign.
1864 – On the 5 day of June, Confederate Brigadier General William E. “Grumble” Jones was killed in an engagement with Union troops at the Shenandoah Valley.
1864 – On the 27 day of June, the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, in the State of Georgia. The battle resulted in a Confederate victory, temporarily checked General Sherman’s march to Atlanta and killed Union General Charles Harker.
1864 – On the 9 day of July, at the Battle of Monocacy, in the State of Maryland, where 7,000 troops under Lew Wallace delayed 15,000 Confederates under General Jubal Early, as they approached Washington, D.C.
1864 – On the 11 day of July, Confederates under General Jubal Early, invade the Suburbs of Washington, D. C.
1864 – On the 12 day of July, as Union forces arrived at Washington, D.C. General Jubal Early began his withdrawal of Confederate troops.
1864 – On the 17 day of July, President Jefferson Davis relieved General Joseph E. Johnston of command of Confederate Army and the Department of Tennessee, and replaced him with General John Bell Hood.
1864 – On the 20 day of July, General John Bell Hood failed his first big test of command and the southern forces were defeated at the Battle of Peachtree Creek, in the State of Georgia.
1864 – On the 22 day of July, Union General James B McPherson was killed during the battle of Atlanta, in the State of Georgia.
1864 – On the 1 day of August, Major General Philip H. Sheridan was named commander of the Army, of the Shenandoah Valley, charged with ridding the valley of confederates, including General Jubal Early.
1864 – On the 5 day of August, Union forces under Admiral David Farragut defeated Confederates at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
1864 – On the 15 day of August, the Union captured the English built Confederate cruiser, the Georgia, off Lisbon, in Portugal.
1864 – On the 18 day of August, the Weldon Railroad, in the State of Virginia, began.
1864 – On the 23 day of August, Fort Morgan, at Mobile Bay, falls to the Federals.
1864 – On the 1 day of August, the Confederates started to evacuate Atlanta, in the State of Georgia.
1864 – On the 2 day of August, the Union forces under General William T. Sherman occupied Atlanta, in the State of Georgia.
1864 – On the 3 day of August, in the Confederate and Union forces exchanged captive surgeons and chaplains, in Charleston Harbor.
1864 – On the 4 day of August, Confederate raider and cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan was shot and killed in a Federal raid on Greeneville, in the State of Tennessee.
1864 – On the 7 day of August, Union General William T. Sherman ordered civilians in Atlanta to evacuate the city, so that he could feed and supply his army.
1864 – On the 19 day of September, Federal troops under General Philip Sheridan defeated General Jubal Early’s Confederates in the Third Battle of Winchester, in the State of Virginia.
1864 – On the 25 day of September, Union troops under General Philip Sheridan forced General Jubal Early’s Confederates to retreat as they advanced toward Staunton and Waynesborough, in the State of Virginia.
1864 – On the 30 day of September, General Robert E. Lee unsuccessfully counterattacked Fort Harrison, in the State of Virginia, lost to the Union the day before.
1864 – On the 1 day of October, Confederate spy Mrs. Rose O’Neal Greenhow drowns as she tries to avoid capture.
1864 – On the 7 day of October, the USS. Wachusett captured the raider, the CSS Florida in an action at Bahia, Brazil.
1864 – On the 9 day of October, the Union Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer and Wesley Merritt engage and rout the Confederates at Tom’s Brook, Round Top Mountain, in the State of Virginia.
1864 – On the 13 day of October, Maryland voters adopted a new state constitution, which abolished slavery.
1864 – On the 19 day of October, a small Confederate raiding party robbed three Vermont banks of over $200,000.
1864 – On the 20 day of October, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God.
1864 – On the 23 day of October, the Last Confederate action in Missouri ends in defeat at the battle of Westport, in the State of Missouri.
1864 – On the 26 day of October, Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson was killed in an ambush near Richmond, in the State of Missouri.
1864 – On the 27 day of October, Union Lieutenant William B. Cushing and a 15 man crew sank the Confederate ironclad, the Albemarle at Plymouth, in the State of North Carolina.
1864 – On the 31 day of October, Nevada became the 36th state in the Union.
1864 – On the 8 day of November, Abraham Lincoln was reelected President of the United States, with Andrew Jackson of the State of Tennessee as Vice President.
1864 – On the 11 day of November, the Union troops at Rome, in the State of Georgia, destroy bridges, foundries, warehouses and other property, then proceed to Atlanta, in the State of Georgia.
1864 – On the 16 day of November, General Sherman and 60,000 Union troops leave Atlanta for their march to the sea.
1864 – On the 22 day of November, General Slocum’s wing of Sherman’s army, occupied Georgia State capital, at Milledgeville.
1864 – On the 25 day of November, Confederate agents set fires in ten or more New York hotels and in Barnum’s Museum.
1864 – On the 29 day of November, the Union army under John Schofield withdrew under Hood’s nose without suffering attack in the Spring Hill Affair, in Tennessee.
1864 – On the 21 day of December, General William T. Sherman and is Union troops entered Savannah, in the State of Georgia. There was no opposition.
1864 – On the 22 day of December, General William T. Sherman sent a message t o President Lincoln. It said, “I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the City of Savannah.”
1864 – On the 23 day of December, a Union fleet rendezvouses near Wilmington, North Carolina, for an attack of Fort Fisher.
1864 – On the 24 day of December, the Union fleet bombards Fort Fisher, in the State of North Carolina, which guarded Wilmington, the last open Confederate port.
1864 – On the 25 day of December, the Union troops attacked Fort Fisher, in the State of North Carolina, but they failed and withdrew.
1865 – On the 1 day of February, Illinois was the first state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery.
1865 – On the 7 day of February, the Hampton Roads Conference aboard the ship, the River Queen, President Lincoln met with the Confederate Peace Commissioners.
1865 – On the 17 day of February, Columbia, in the State of South Carolina, was captured and burned, and Charleston, in the State of South Carolina was evacuated.
1865 – On the 18 day of February, Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, surrendered to Union troops under Brigadier General Alexander Schimmelfennig.
1865 – On the 20 day of February, the Confederate House of Representatives authorized the use of slaves as soldiers.
1865 – On the 18 day or February, the Confederate Congress adjourned its last session, against President Jefferson Davis’ orders.
1865 – On the 25 day of March, Confederates attacked Fort Stedman, at Petersburg, in the State of Virginia. Union troops began siege of Mobile, in the State of Alabama.
1865 – On the 27 day of March, President Lincoln met with Generals Grant and Sherman and Admiral Porter, aboard the River Queen at City Point, in the State of Virginia.
1865 – On the 29 day of March, the Appomattox Campaign began.
1865 – On the 2 day of April, the Confederate government evacuated Richmond, in the State of Virginia. Confederate General A. P. Hill was killed outside Petersburg, Virginia.
1865 – On the 3 day of April, the Union troops occupied Richmond and Petersburg, in the State of Virginia.
1865 – On the 6 day of April, the last major engagement between the Northern Army in the State of Virginia, with General Robert E. Lee and the Army of the Potomac with General U.S. Grant happened at Sayler’s Creek, in the State of Virginia.
1865 – On the 7 day of April, President Lincoln wired General Grant, and said, General Sheridan said, If the thing is pressed, I think that Lee will surrender. Let the thing be pressed.”
1865 – On the 9 day of April, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
1865 – On the 10 day of April, General Robert E. Lee issued his last orders, bidding “an affectionate farewell” to his troops.
1865 – On the 14 day of April, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, at Ford’s Theatre, in Washington, D.C.
1865 – On the 15 day of April, President Lincoln died at 7:22 A.M. and Andrew Johnson became President.
1865 – On the19 day of April, Funeral services were held for Abraham Lincoln.
1865 – On the 9 day of May, the trial for the eight accused of Lincoln’s Assassination conspirators began.
1865 – On the 10 day of May, Jefferson Davis was captured near Irwinville, in the State of Georgia.
1865 – On the 12 day of May, one of the last large battle took place at Palmito Ranch, in the State of Texas.
1865 – On the 26 day of May, at New Orleans the Army of Trans Mississippi the last significant Army of the Confederacy surrenders.
1865 – On the 27 day of May, President Andrew Johnson ordered most people imprisoned by the military to be discharged.
1865 – On the 29 day of May, President Andrew Johnson granted amnesty and pardon to those who participated in the rebellion.
1865 – On the 30 day of June, all the eight alleged Lincoln assassination conspirators were found guilty.
1865, On the 18 day of December, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery was declared in effect by Secretary of State Seward, after approval by 27states.