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By civilwartalk
Published: September 30, 2006
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1860 - November 6 - Abraham Lincoln Elected President of the United States
- December 20 - South Carolina secedes from the Union.
1861 - January 9 - Mississippi secedes from the Union.
- January 10 - Florida secedes from the Union.
- January 11 - Alabama secedes from the Union.
- January 19 - Georgia secedes from the Union.
- January 26 - Louisiana secedes from the Union.
- January 29 - Kansas admitted to the Union as a free state.
- February 9 - The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis as president.
- February 23 - Texas secedes from the Union.
- March 4 - Lincoln inaugurated as President of the United States.
- April 12 - At 4:30 AM Confederates under General Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins.
- April 17 - Virginia secedes from the Union, followed within 5 weeks by Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, thus forming an eleven state Confederacy.
- April 19 - President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports. For the duration of the war the blockade limits the ability of the rural South to stay well supplied in its war against the industrialized North.
- July 4 - Lincoln, in a speech to Congress, states the war is..."a People's contest... a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men..." The Congress authorizes a call for 500,000 men.
- July 21 - The Union Army under Gen. Irvin McDowell suffers a defeat at Bull Run 25 miles southwest of Washington. Confederate Gen. Thomas J. Jackson earns the nickname "Stonewall," as his brigade resists Union attacks. Union troops fall back to Washington. President Lincoln realizes the war will be long. "It's damned bad," he comments.
- July 27 - President Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as Commander of the Department of the Potomac, replacing McDowell.
- September 11 - President Lincoln revokes Gen. John C. Frémont's unauthorized military proclamation of emancipation in Missouri. Later, the president relieves Gen. Frémont of his command and replaces him with Gen. David Hunter.
- November 1 - President Lincoln appoints McClellan as general-in-chief of all Union forces after the resignation of the aged Winfield Scott. Lincoln tells McClellan, "...the supreme command of the Army will entail a vast labor upon you." McClellan responds, "I can do it all."
- November 8 - The beginning of an international diplomatic crisis for President Lincoln as two Confederate officials sailing toward England are seized by the U.S. Navy. England, the leading world power, demands their release, threatening war. Lincoln eventually gives in and orders their release in December. "One war at a time," Lincoln remarks.
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