Timeline and Terms

Events

At Lincoln’s death Johnson became president
Attack on Fort Sumter
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Ball’s Bluff
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Fort Donelson
Battle of Fort Henry
Battle of Fort Wagner
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Milliken’s Bend
Battle of Pea Ridge
Battle of Perryville
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Spotsylvania
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Vicksburg
Call for Union volunteers
Confederate capital established
Crittenden-Johnson Resolution
Dakota Conflict
Dorothea Dix named Superintendent of Female Nurses
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation draft
First Battle of Bull Run
Gettysburg Address
Grant named Union general in chief
Habeas corpus suspended
Habeas corpus suspended nationwide
Hampton Roads Peace Conference
John Wilkes Booth killed
Lee in command of Virginia forces
Lincoln assassinated
Lincoln re-elected
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Lost Orders of Antietam
Militia Act
Monitor and Merrimack
National Bank Act
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Revenue Act of 1861
Richmond captured
Seceded states declared “in a state of insurrection”
Secession rejected in Maryland
Second Battle of Bull Run
Seven Days Battles
Sherman’s occupation of Atlanta
Southern rebellion declared over
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Surrender of Port Hudson, Louisiana
Thirteenth Amendment
Trent Affair
Union and Confederate forces mobilized
Union capture of New Orleans
US Sanitary Commission established
West Virginia entered the Union

People

Abraham Lincoln
Ambrose Burnside
Andrew Johnson
Benjamin Butler
Braxton Bragg
Charles Sumner
Clara Barton
David Hunter
Dorothea Dix
Elizabeth Blackwell
Frederick Douglass
George B. McClellan
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Horace Greeley
Jefferson Davis
John J. Crittenden
John Wilkes Booth
Joseph Hooker
Mary Edwards Walker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert E. Lee
Robert Smalls
Sojourner Truth
Stephen A. Douglas
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Ulysses S. Grant
Wendell Phillips
William Seward
William Tecumseh Sherman
Winfield Scott

Places

Border States
Harpers Ferry
Mason-Dixon Line

Organizations

54th Massachusetts Regiment
Big Four
Confederate States of America
contrabands
Copperheads
United States Colored Troops
United States Sanitary Commission
Women in the Civil War