| Main chronology |
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| Date | Event | State | Notes |
| 03/06/1820 | The Missouri Compromise | DC | Signed by President James Monroe |
04/26/1846 to
02/03/1848 | Mexican-American War | | |
10/16/1859 to
10/18/1859 | John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry | WV | |
| 11/06/1860 | Abraham Lincoln wins 1st mandate | USA | Beating John C. Breckinridge |
| 12/24/1860 | South Carolina's secession | | |
| 03/04/1861 | Lincoln's First inaugural address | DC | |
04/12/1861 to
04/13/1861 | Battle of Fort Sumter | SC | |
| 05/20/1861 | North Carolina's secession | | |
| 05/23/1861 | Virginia's secession | | |
| 07/21/1861 | First Battle of Bullrun/
Manassas | VA | |
| 02/06/1862 | Battle of Fort Henry | KY | |
02/12/1862 to
02/16/1862 | Battle of Fort Donelson | TN | |
04/06/1862 to
04/07/1862 | Battle of Shiloh | TN | 04/06 Death of A. Sidney Johnston |
05/31/1862 to
06/01/1862 | Battle of Seven Pines | VA | J.E. Johnston wounded |
06/25/1862 to
07/01/1862 | Seven Days Battles | VA | |
08/28/1862 to
08/30/1862 | Second Battle of Bullrun/
Manassas | VA | |
| 09/17/1862 | Battle of Antietam | MD | |
| 09/22/1862 | Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation | DC | |
12/11/1862 to
12/15/1862 | Battle of Fredericksburg | VA | |
| 01/01/1863 | Emancipation Proclamation | DC | |
04/30/1863 to
05/06/1863 | Battle of Chancellorsville | VA | |
| 05/10/1863 | Death of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson | VA | Shot by friendly fire at Chancellorsville |
| 06/09/1863 | Battle of Brandy Station | VA | Big cavalry engagement |
07/01/1863 to
07/03/1863 | Battle of Gettysburg | PA | |
| 07/04/1863 | Surrender of Vicksburg | MS | |
09/18/1863 to
09/20/1863 | Battle of Chickamauga | GA | George H. Thomas' stand |
11/23/1863 to
11/25/1863 | Battles for Chattanooga | TN | Missionary Ridge's assault |
| 04/08/1864 | Senate votes Amendment XIII | DC | Slavery abolished |
05/05/1864 to
05/07/1864 | Battle of the Wilderness | VA | |
05/08/1864 to
05/20/1864 | Battle of Spottsylvania Court House | VA | |
05/31/1864 to
06/12/1864 | Battle of Cold Harbor | VA | |
| 07/30/1864 | Battle of the Crater | VA | Siege of Petersburg |
| 08/05/1864 | Battle of Mobile Bay | AL | |
| 09/02/1864 | Surrender of Atlanta | GA | |
| 10/19/1864 | Battle of Cedar Creek | VA | |
| 11/08/1864 | Abraham Lincoln wins 2nd mandate | USA | Beating George B. McClellan |
| 31/01/1865 | House votes Amendment XIII | DC | Slavery abolished |
| 03/04/1865 | Lincoln's Second inaugural address | DC | |
| 04/02/1865 | Surrender of Petersburg | VA | At dawn |
| 04/02/1865 | Surrender of Richmond | VA | Evening |
| 04/09/1865 | Lee's surrender at Appomattox | VA | |
| 04/15/1865 | Death of president Abraham Lincoln | DC | Shot the day before |
| 04/26/1865 | Joseph E. Johnston surrender | NC | Bennett Place |
| 04/26/1865 | John Wilkes Booth killed | VA | Near Port Royal |
| 05/10/1865 | Jefferson Davis captured | GA | Near Irwinville |
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| Union commanders |
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| 05/27/1861 | Army and Department of Northeastern Virginia | Irvin McDowell | Takes command |
| 11/01/1861 | Union armies | George B. McClellan | Takes command |
| 26/07/1861 | Army of the Potomac | George B. McClellan | Takes command |
| 06/26/1862 | Army of Virginia | John Pope | Takes command |
| 09/12/1862 | Army of Virginia | John Pope | Resigns, unit merged
into the Army of the Potomac |
| 11/07/1862 | Army of the Potomac | Ambrose E. Burnside | Takes command |
| 01/26/1863 | Army of the Potomac | Joseph Hooker | Takes command |
| 06/28/1863 | Army of the Potomac | George Gordon Meade | Takes command |
| 03/02/1864 | Union armies | Ulysses S. Grant | Takes command |
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| Famous people during the civil war |
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| Abraham Lincoln | 02/12/1809-04/15/1865 | 16th President of U.S. | |
| Edwin McMasters Stanton | 12/19/1814-12/24/1869 | Secretary of War | |
| William Henry Seward | 05/16/1801-10/10/1872 | Secretary of State | |
| Andrew Johnson | 12/29/1808-07/31/1875 | 16th Vice President | 17th President of the U.S. |
| Winfield Scott | 06/13/1786-05/29/1866 | U.S. Army general | |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 04/27/1822-07/23/1885 | Union General | 18th President of the U.S. |
| George Brinton McClellan | 12/03/1826-10/29/1885 | Union General | Run in 1864 election |
| John Pope | 03/16/1822-09/23/1892 | Union General | |
| Ambrose Everett Burnside | 05/23/1824-09/13/1881 | Union General | |
| Joseph Hooker | 11/13/1814-10/31/1879 | Union General | |
| George Gordon Meade | 12/31/1815-11/06/1872 | Union General | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | 02/08/1820-02/14/1891 | Union General | |
| George Henry Thomas | 07/31/1816-03/28/1870 | Union General | Rock of Chickamauga |
| Winfield Scott Hancock | 02/14/1824-02/09/1886 | Union General | |
| Philip Henry Sheridan | 03/06/1831-05/05/1888 | Union General | |
| Andrew Hull Foote | 09/12/1806-06/26/1863 | Union R.Admiral | |
| David Glasgow Farragut | 07/05/1801-08/14/1870 | Union Admiral | |
| Benjamin Franklin Butler | 11/05/1818-01/11/1893 | Union General | |
| William Starke Rosecrans | 09/06/1819-03/11/1898 | Union General | |
| Henry Wager Halleck | 01/16/1815-01/09/1872 | Union General | |
| John Alexander McClernand | 05/30/1812-09/20/1900 | Union General | |
| John C. Frémont | 01/21/1813-07/13/1890 | Union General | |
| Don Carlos Buell | 03/23/1818-11/19/1898 | Union General | |
| Jefferson Davis | 06/03/1808-12/06/1889 | President of the C.S. | |
| Robert Edward Lee | 01/19/1807-10/12/1870 | Confederate general | |
| Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson | 01/21/1824-05/10/1863 | Confederate general | |
| Albert Sidney Johnston | 02/02/1803-04/06/1862 | Confederate general | |
| James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart | 02/06/1833-05/12/1864 | Confederate general | |
| Joseph Eggleston Johnston | 02/03/1807-03/21/1891 | Confederate general | |
| Braxton Bragg | 03/22/1817-09/27/1876 | Confederate general | |
| James Longstreet | 01/08/1821-01/02/1904 | Confederate general | |
| Richard Stoddert Ewell | 02/08/1817-01/25/1872 | Confederate general | |
| Jubal Anderson Early | 11/03/1816-03/02/1894 | Confederate general | |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | 07/13/1821-10/29/1877 | Confederate general | |
| Robert Emmett Rodes | 03/29/1829-09/19/1864 | Confederate general | |
| Stephen Dodson Ramseur | 05/31/1837-10/20/1864 | Confederate general | |
| John Brown Gordon | 02/06/1832-01/09/1904 | Confederate general | |
| Edward Porter Alexander | 03/26/1835-04/28/1910 | Confederate general | |
| John C. Breckinridge | 01/16/1821-05/17/1875 | Confederate general | |
| Ambrose Powell Hill | 11/09/1825-04/02/1865 | Confederate general | |
| Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard | 05/28/1818-02/20/1893 | Confederate general | |
| John Bell Hood | 06/01/1831-08/30/1879 | Confederate general | |
| George Edward Pickett | 01/16/1825-07/30/1875 | Confederate general | |
| John Wilkes Booth | 05/10/1838-04/26/1865 | Actor | Murderer of A.Lincoln |
| David Edgar Herold | 06/16/1842-07/07/1865 | | Booth's accomplice |
| Lewis Thornton Powell | 04/22/1844-07/07/1865 | | Booth's accomplice |
| Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt | 1820/1823?-07/07/1865 | | Booth's accomplice |
| George Andrew Atzerodt | 06/12/1835-07/07/1865 | | Booth's accomplice |
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