Date	Event:
December 20, 1860	South Carolina is first state to secede from the Union.
January 9, 1861	Mississippi is 2^nd state to secede.
January 10. 1861	Florida 1/10, Alabama 1/11, Georgia 1/19, and Louisiana 1/26 secede from the Union.
February 4, 1861	Confederate States of America (CSA) declared.
February 9, 1861	Jefferson Davis elected President of CSA.
February 23, 1861	Texas is 7^th state to join Confederacy.
March 4, 1861	Abraham Lincoln inaugurated president of what was no longer the "United" States.
March 6, 1861	Davis calls for 100,000 volunteers.
April 12 –14, 1861	Civil War broke out with bombardment of For Sumter S.C.
April 15, 1861	Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers and proclaims naval blockade.
April 17, 1861	Virginia is 8^th state to secede.
April 19, 1861	4 Union soldiers killed in Baltimore: 1^st casualties of Civil War.
May 6, 1861	Arkansas: 9^th to secede.
May 20, 1861	North Carolina: 10^th to join Confederacy.
June 8, 1861	Tennessee seceded from the Union: 11^th state.
July 21, 1861	First battle of Bull Run.
July 25, 1861	McClellan in Union command.
August 10, 1861	Battle of Wilson's Creek keeps Missouri in Union.
September 10 – 15, 1861	Lee fails to retake West Virginia.
February 6 – 16, 1862	Grant takes Forts Henry and Donelson.
March 8 – 9, 1862	Ironclad battle of Hampton Roads.
March 23 – June 9, 1862	Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
April 6 – 7, 1862	Battle of Shiloh, TN.
April 16, 1862	Confederacy adopts conscription
April 24 – 26, 1862	Bombardment and fall of New Orleans.
May 30, 1862	Homestead Act.
May 31 – June 1, 1862	Battle of Seven Pines.
June 1, 1862	Lee appointed Confederate commander of Easter Virginia and North Carolina.
July 1, 1862	1^st organized Negro troops of the Civil War, later became 33^rd US Colored Infantry.
July 22, 1862	Lincoln submits 1^st draft of Emancipation Proclamation to Cabinet.
August 14 – October 8, 1862	Confederates invade Kentucky.
August 29, 1862	2^nd battle of Bull Run: Union troops defeated retreat to Washington.
September 17, 1862	Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day of Civil War: Union, 2108 killed, 9549 wounded; Confederate, 2700 killed, 9029 wounded.
December 13, 1862	Battle of Fredericksburg: Union troops defeated.
January 1, 1863	Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
March 3, 1863	1^st national conscription act passed.
April 18 – May 19, 1863	Grant's Vicksburg Campaign.
May 1, 1863	Battle of Chancellorsville: Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson mortally wounded by his own men, mistaken for an enemy soldier.
July 1, 1863	Battle of Gettysburg: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee defeated.
July 4, 1863	Vicksburg surrenders to Grant. (29,000 men)
July 13, 1863	New York City drafts Riots.
November 19, 1863	Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
November 23, 1863	Battle of Chattanooga.
March 10, 1864	Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made Union Commander-in-chief of the Federal armies.
June 1 – June 12, 1864	Battle of Cold Harbor, Lee repulsed Grant's assault.
July 2 – October 19, 1864	Second, and last, Shenandoah Valley campaign, Confederated defeated.
September 2, 1864	Capture of Atlanta.
November 8, 1864	Lincoln reelected.
November 14 – December 22, 1864	Sherman's March to the Savannah, GA.
November 14 – December 16, 1864	Franklin and Nashville Campaign.
January 16 – March 21, 1865	Sherman's drive through the Carolinas.
February 3, 1865	Hampton Roads conference.
February 6, 1865	Lee made Confederate Commander-in-Chief by Jefferson Davis.
March 20, 1865	Confederate Congress finally authorizes arming of slaves, now made subject to military call to duty.
April 2, 1865	Petersburg and Richmond abandoned.
April 9, 1865	Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse to Grant.
April 14, 1865	Assassination of Lincoln.
April 26 – May 26, 1865	Final Confederate capitulations.
December 8, 1865	13^th amendment adopted abolishing slavery.