Civil War
Directions: To use this timeline, we suggest first printing out this PDF. Notice that the
event sheets do not have dates on them. Shuffle the event sheets and hand out them out,
one per student, to the class. (It is important not to hand them out in the order in which
they printed because they are already organized chronologically!) Once everyone has an
event, allow the students to move around the classroom, discussing their event with fellow
students, with the aim of arranging themselves in a line sequentially based on their event.
After several minutes, the students should be organized in one line across the classroom
with their event pages displayed from earliest to most recent. Once the students have com-
pleted this task, allow each student to read their event, and then guess the date at which it
occurred. Use the following answer key to assess the accuracy of the dates and to confirm
the correct order of the timeline. There may be more events than there are students in
your class. If this is the case, please feel free to pick and choose the events you use in or-
der to customize our timeline to your classroom’s needs. If you prefer, you may also give
each student two events to sort.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Answer Key:
Oct. 16–18, 1859 John Brown, an abolitionist, attacks the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia with the aim of arming enslaved workers and inspiring a rebellion. This action intensifies the hostilities between northern and southern states.
Dec. 2, 1859 John Brown, an abolitionist, is hanged for murder and treason following his attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Nov. 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States. Hannibal Hamlin is chosen as his Vice President.
Dec. 20, 1860 A special convention of the South Carolina legislature decides to secede from the United States of America, when news of Abraham Lincoln’s approaching presidency reaches them.
Jan. 9–Feb. 1, ‘61 Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas (listed here alphabetically) all secede from the United States within one month’s time.
Jan. 29, 1861 Kansas is admitted as a free state, a state in which the institution of slavery is
illegal.
Feb. 4-9, 1861 Representatives from the states that have seceded assemble in Montgomery,
Alabama. They create a new government, write an interim constitution, and elect
Jefferson Davis, a former Mississippi Congressman of the United States,
as their President. They decide to call themselves the Confederate States of
America.
March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as President of the United States. He is the
sixteenth man to hold this position.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Answer Key:
April 12–13, 1861 Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, is attacked. On the second day of assault, the men at the fort, led by Union Major Robert Anderson, surrender to South Carolina troops led by Confederate Brigadier General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.
April 15, 1861 Understanding that war is coming, President Abraham Lincoln asks for 75,000 men to sign on for three months of armed service to the United States.
Apr. 17–May 20, ‘61 Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia (listed here in alphabetical order), all secede from the United States.
April 19, 1861 Lincoln issues a blockade of Confederate ports. April 20, 1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the United States Army. May 29, 1861 Richmond, Virginia is named as the capital city of the Confederate States of
America. Richmond is only about 100 miles from Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States of America.
July 21, 1861 Despite Union, or Northern, confidence, the Confederacy is victorious the First Battle of Bull Run (also known as First Manassas by Confederate troops) in Virginia. At this battle, Confederate General Thomas Jackson earns the nickname “Stonewall” for his resolve in the battle, standing strong as though he were a stone wall. This is the first land battle of the Civil War. Nov. 1, 1861 George B. McClellan supersedes General Winfield Scott as General-in-Chief of the Union army.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Answer Key:
March 9, 1862 Two ironclad ships, a northern ship, the USS Monitor and a southern ship, the CSS Virginia, fight at Hampton Roads, Virginia. The battle ends in a stalemate, highlighting the superiority of ships made of steel rather than wood.
April 16, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln enacts the District of Columbia Emancipation Act. This act frees the enslaved persons in the District of Columbia., as well as compensates, or pays, the slave owners for their loss of property. Prior to this act, enslaved persons had been considered property.
May 8, 1862 Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley campaign begins.
May 31–June 1, ’62 Robert E. Lee takes command of the Confederate army from Joseph E. Johnston during the Battle of Seven Pines.
June 25–July 1, ’62 Confederate General Robert E. Lee drives the Union army, led by General George B. McClellan, from Richmond, Virginia in what is called the Seven Days’ campaign.
Aug. 20, 1862 Horace Greeley, a newspaper editor, publishes The Prayer of Twenty Millions. This is an appeal to President Abraham Lincoln to free the enslaved workers in the Union.
Aug. 29–30, ’62 The Confederacy wins the Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas, when referred to by Confederates.
Sept. 22, 1862 President Lincoln issues the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
Jan. 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. This document
frees all enslaved persons in states currently in rebellion.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Answer Key:
March 3, 1863 President Lincoln signs the Conscription Act. This act makes it legal for all men between 20 and 45 years old to be called to military service. Time served, however, can be avoided by paying a fee or finding someone to serve in one’s place.
May 10, 1863 Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson dies from pneumonia. He contracts the disease after being wounded during the Battle of Chancellorsville in the month.
July 1–3, 1863 Union and Confederate forces collide at the Battle of Gettysburg, fought in Pennsylvania. The Union wins this battle.
July 4, 1863 The Confederates surrender the fort city, Vicksburg, Mississippi to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. This gives the Union control of the Mississippi River.
July 13–15, 1863 Violent riots break out in New York City protesting the Conscription Act. Many poor people feel it is unfair because one can pay a fee in exchange for not having to serve in the armed forces. Most of these poor people cannot afford to pay the fee.
Nov. 19, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg Address at a dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Nov. 25, 1863 The Union is victorious after the three day Battle of Chattanooga, in Tennessee. March 10, 1864 Union General Ulysses S. Grant is given official authority to command all of the
armies of the United States of America after being promoted to Lieutenant General.
June 28, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
The act had allowed escaped enslaved persons to be returned to their owners
across state lines.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Answer Key:
Nov. 8, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln is reelected as President of the United States of America. Andrew Johnson is chosen as Vice President.
Nov. 16, 1864 Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his famous “March to the Sea” from Atlanta, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia.
Dec. 21, 1864 Savannah, Georgia falls to Union General William Tecumseh Sherman without opposition.
Jan. 31, 1865 Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment abolishes slavery in all of the United States.
March 4, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as President of the United States for a second term in office.
March 29, 1865 Union General Ulysses S. Grant and George G. Meade begin to pursue Confederate General Robert E. Lee along the Appomattox River.
April 2, 1865 Petersburg, Virginia falls to the Union. The Confederate government evacuates Richmond, Virginia.
April 9, 1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his Army of Northern Virginia to
Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This
action ends the Civil War.
April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth, a popular actor at the time, shoots President Abraham Lincoln
at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. during a play. At about the same time,
Secretary of State William H. Seward is stabbed inside his home also in
Washington, D.C. The attacks are coordinated implying a conspiracy.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Answer Key:
April 15, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln dies.
April 15, 1865 Vice President Andrew Johnson is inaugurated as President of the United States. He is the seventeenth man to hold this position.
April 26, 1865 John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, is shot and killed while on the run in Virginia.
May 10, 1865 Former President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis, is taken prisoner near Irwinville, Georgia.
June 2, 1865 General Kirby E. Smith, commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, accepts the terms of surrender offered in late May officially ending Confederate resistance to the Union.
June 30, 1865 All of the accused conspirators of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
are found guilty, eight people in total. Four of the eight, including the only woman
accused, Mary Surratt, are sentenced to death.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
John Brown, an abolitionist, attacks the federal arsenal
at Harpers Ferry, Virginia with the aim of arming
enslaved workers and inspiring a rebellion. This action
intensifies the hostilities between northern
and southern states.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
John Brown, an abolitionist, is hanged for murder and treason following his attack
on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States. Hannibal Hamlin is chosen as his Vice President.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
A special convention of the South Carolina legislature decides to secede from the United States of America,
when news of Abraham Lincoln’s approaching presidency reaches them.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas (listed here alphabetically) all secede from the United States
within one month’s time.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Kansas is admitted as a free state, a state in which the institution of slavery is illegal.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Representatives from the states that have seceded assemble in Montgomery, Alabama. They create a new government, write an interim constitution,
and elect Jefferson Davis, a former Mississippi Congressman of the United States, as their President. They decide
to call themselves the Confederate States of America.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as President of the United States. He is the sixteenth man to hold this position.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, is attacked. On the second day of assault, the men at the fort, led by Union Major Robert Anderson, surrender
to South Carolina troops led by Confederate Brigadier General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Understanding that war is coming, President Abraham Lincoln asks for 75,000 men to sign on
for three months of armed service to the United States.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia (listed here in alphabetical order), all secede
from the United States.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Lincoln issues a blockade of Confederate ports.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the United States Army.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Richmond, Virginia is named as the capital city
of the Confederate States of America. Richmond is
only about 100 miles from Washington, D.C.,
the capital of the United States of America.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Despite Union, or Northern, confidence, the Confederacy is victorious the First Battle of Bull Run (also known as
First Manassas by Confederate troops) in Virginia. At this battle, Confederate General Thomas Jackson
earns the nickname “Stonewall” for his resolve in the battle, standing strong as though he were a stone wall. This is the first land battle of the Civil War.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
George B. McClellan supersedes General Winfield Scott as General-in-Chief of the Union army.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Two ironclad ships, a northern ship, the USS Monitor
and a southern ship, the CSS Virginia, fight at Hampton Roads, Virginia. The battle ends in a stalemate,
highlighting the superiority of ships made of steel rather than wood.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
President Abraham Lincoln enacts the District of Columbia
Emancipation Act. This act frees the enslaved persons in the District of Columbia., as well as compensates, or pays, the slave owners for their loss of property.
Prior to this act, enslaved persons had been considered property.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley campaign begins.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Robert E. Lee takes command of the Confederate army from Joseph E. Johnston during the Battle of Seven Pines.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Confederate General Robert E. Lee drives the Union army, led by General George B. McClellan, from Richmond, Virginia in what is called the Seven Days’ campaign.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Horace Greeley, a newspaper editor, publishes
The Prayer of Twenty Millions. This is an appeal to President Abraham Lincoln to free the enslaved workers in the Union.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
The Confederacy wins the Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas, when referred to by Confederates.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
President Lincoln issues the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
President Abraham Lincoln issues
the Emancipation Proclamation. This document frees
all enslaved persons in states currently in rebellion.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
President Lincoln signs the Conscription Act. This act makes it legal for all men between 20 and 45 years old to be called to military service. Time served,
however, can be avoided by paying a fee or finding someone to serve in one’s place.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson dies from pneumonia. He contracts the disease after being wounded during the Battle of Chancellorsville
earlier in the month.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Union and Confederate forces collide at the Battle of Gettysburg, fought in Pennsylvania.
The Union wins this battle.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
The Confederates surrender the fort city, Vicksburg, Mississippi to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
This gives the Union control of the Mississippi River.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Violent riots break out in New York City protesting the Conscription Act. Many poor people feel it is unfair because one can pay a fee in exchange for not having to serve in the armed forces. Most of these poor people
cannot afford to pay the fee.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
President Abraham Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg Address at a dedication of the National Cemetery
at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
The Union is victorious after the three day Battle of Chattanooga, in Tennessee.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Union General Ulysses S. Grant is given official authority to command all of the armies of the United States of America
after being promoted to Lieutenant General.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill to repeal
the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The act had allowed
escaped enslaved persons to be returned to their owners
across state lines.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
President Abraham Lincoln is reelected as
President of the United States. Andrew Johnson is chosen
as Vice President.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his famous “March to the Sea” from Atlanta, Georgia
to Savannah, Georgia.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Savannah, Georgia falls to Union General William Tecumseh Sherman
without opposition.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment
abolishes slavery in all of the United States.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
President Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as President of the United States for a second term in office.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Union General Ulysses S. Grant and George G. Meade begin to pursue Confederate General Robert E. Lee
along the Appomattox River.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Petersburg, Virginia falls to the Union. The Confederate government evacuates Richmond, Virginia.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant
at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This action ends the Civil War.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
John Wilkes Booth, a popular actor at the time,
shoots President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater
in Washington, D.C. during a play. At about the same time,
Secretary of State William H. Seward is stabbed inside his home
also in Washington, D.C. The attacks are coordinated
implying a conspiracy.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
President Abraham Lincoln dies.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Vice President Andrew Johnson is inaugurated as President of the United States.
He is the seventeenth man to hold this position.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin,
is shot and killed while on the run in Virginia.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Former President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis,
is taken prisoner near Irwinville, Georgia.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
General Kirby E. Smith, commander of the
Trans-Mississippi Department, accepts the terms
of surrender offered in late May officially ending
Confederate resistance to the Union.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
All of the accused conspirators of the assassination
of President Abraham Lincoln are found guilty,
eight people in total. Four of the eight,
including the only woman accused, Mary Surratt,
are sentenced to death.
TUDOR PLACE HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDEN
© 2012, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, TUDOR PLACE
1644 31st Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20007-3071 Voice (202) 965-0400 • www.tudorplace.org • Fax (202) 965-3168
Top Related