Politcal Events                                                                                      Western Theater

Lincoln Inauguration                                                                          Union captured New Orleans

Formation of Confederacy                                                                Battle of Shiloh

Emancipation Proclamation                                                            Battle of Vicksburg

Surrendering of Robert E. Lee                                                        Battle of Chattanooga

Virginia Theater                                                                                     Foreign Policy

Fort Sumter                                                                                   Union set up blockades

Bull Run                                                                                         Trent Affair                                                            

Batle of Antietam                                                                          French dispatch army to Mexico City

Battle of Fredericksburg

Battle of Gettysburg