Timeline - 1866 and Later

1868 - Former Union General Ulysses S. Grant is elected eighteenth president of the United States of America.

1868 - May 30 - The first national Memorial Day is established for the casualties of the Civil War.

1868 - December 24 - President Johnson declares pardons for all involved in the secession of the South, including the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis.

1870 - March 30 - Negroes are guaranteed voting rights by the Fifteenth Amendment.

1870 - October 12 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee passes away.

1866 - 1876 - Post war graft and corruption shocks the nation but inspires reform.