Table : CHRONOLOGY
1861
  • Attack on Fort Sumter.
  • Four Upper South states join Confederacy.
  • First battle of Bull Run (Manassas).
  • First Confiscation Act.
1862
  • Grant captures Fort Henry and Fort Donelson.
  • Battle of Glorieta Pass.
  • Battle of Pea Ridge.
  • Battle of Shiloh.
  • Confederate Congress authorizes draft.
  • Homestead Act.
  • Virginia peninsula campaign.
  • Second Confiscation Act.
  • Militia Act.
  • Battle of Antietam.
1863
  • Emancipation Proclamation.
  • National Banking Act.
  • Congress authorizes draft.
  • Fall of Vicksburg to Union forces.
  • Lee defeated at battle of Gettysburg.
  • New York City draft riots.
1864
  • Grant appointed Union general in chief.
  • Wilderness campaign.
  • Fall of Atlanta.
  • Lincoln reelected.
  • Fall of Savannah.
1865
  • Fall of Petersburg and Richmond.
  • Lee surrenders to Grant.
  • Lincoln assassinated; Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes president.