Lincoln will respond on May 3 with an additional call for 43,000+ volunteers to serve for three years, expanding the size of the Regular Army. As a result of this call for volunteers, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee secede from the Union in the following weeks. The Civil War formally begins.Īpril 15, 1861- President Lincoln issues a public declaration that an insurrection exists and calls for 75,000 militia to stop the rebellion. March 11, 1861- Confederate delegates in Montgomery approve the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.Īpril 12, 1861- Confederate forces fire upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
March 4, 1861- Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the sixteenth president of the United States in Washington, DC. The delegates are tasked with drafting a Confederate Constitution and establishing a provisional government.įebruary 18, 1861- The delegates at the Montgomery Convention appoint Jefferson Davis as provisional President of the Confederate States of America at Montgomery, Alabama, a position he will hold until elections can be arranged. January 1861- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas secede from the United States.įebruary 4, 1861- The southern states that had seceded assemble delegates at Montgomery, Alabama to organize the Confederate States of America.
On April l12, 1861 Confederates in South Carolina fired on Fort Sumter, starting the American Civil War.
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