A Day in the Life of the Civil War

Two weeks after the first southern state; South Carolina seceded, Delaware’s legislature voted on 3 January 1861 not to secede from the U...

Confederate Colonel Robert Hopkins Hatton was killed May 31 st 1862 at the Battle of Fair Oaks [also called the Battle of Seven Pines]. ...

The 1 st Maine Infantry answered President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers, completing the raising of their regiment on April 28 t...

On April 26 th 1865, Union soldiers caught up with John Wilkes Booth at the Garrett Farm, and killed him. Union Lieutenant Colonel E...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia fell to Union control April 3 rd 1865. Union General Ulysses S Grant had been working ...

John Newton received his appointment to Union Major General March 30 th 1863. John Newton was born August 25 th 1822 in Norfolk, Vi...

United States President Abraham Lincoln travel to City Point, Virginia and on March 28 th 1865 [I have seen the date listed as March 27 ...

Union Private Jacob Wilson Parrott, a member of Andrews’ Raiders, was exchanged along with other members of the Raiders on March 17 th 1...

Henry Highland Garnet was the first African American to preach to the United States House of Representatives, he did so on February 12 th...

One of the first orders that Union Major General Joseph Hooker made after becoming the commander of the Army of the Potomac was on Februa...

Texas joined six other states on February 1 st 1861 and seceded from the Union. Samuel Houston the Governor of Texas was a faithful...

African American William Henry Johnson a personal valet of United States President Abraham Lincoln died January 28 th 1864 most likely ...

United States President Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter on January 26 th 1863 to Union General Joseph Hooker upon his ascending to comman...

Smith Dykins Atkins was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln to be promoted to Brevet Brigadier General January 12 th 1865. Smith ...

The only South Carolina convention to vote unanimously for secession was held December 17 th 1860 at the First Baptist Church of Columbi...

President Abraham Lincoln submitted his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction on December 8 th 1863. As the Civil War’s third y...

Katherine Jane Chase the daughter of the United States Secretary of the Treasury, married Rhode Island Governor William Sprague November...

United States President Abraham Lincoln was voted into a second term on November 8 th 1864, by around 400,000 votes. The United Stat...

Union President Abraham Lincoln extended the reach of the suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus on October 14 th 1861. Near the be...

The Confiscation Act of 1861 was signed into law August 6 th 1861 by President Abraham Lincoln and included taking slaves. The bill ...