Abraham Lincoln 
 
 

Ulysses S. Grant 
 
 

Civil War Timeline
1860

• November 6, Lincoln elected

• March 4, Lincoln inaugurated
• April 12, Firing on Fort Sumter, S.C. initiated the war
• July 21, 1st Battle of Bull Run

• June - September, 2nd Bull Run Campaign
• July 13, Lincoln read initial draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to Secretaries Seward and Welles
• July 22, Lincoln discussed the draft at a Cabinet meeting
• September, Antietam Campaign
• September 22, Cabinet discussion of Emancipation, and printing of preliminary version of Emancipation Proclamation

• January 1, Lincoln signed the Final Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation
• April - May, Chancellorsville Campaign
• June - July, Gettysburg Campaign
• November 19, The Gettysburg Address

• April 4, Lincoln explained his choices relating to emancipation
• May - December, The March Toward Richmond
• May 5 - 7, Grant's Wilderness Campaign
• May 7 - 20, Battle of Spotsylvania
• June 1864 - May 1865, Petersburg Campaign
• September 1, Fall of Atlanta
• November 8, Lincoln re-elected

• April 9, General Lee surrendered
• April 14, Lincoln assassinated