A. Lincoln Timeline

Abbreviated Lincoln Time Line

1860
November 6	Lincoln elected President

1861
March 4	Lincoln inaugurated
April 12	Firing on Fort Sumter, S.C., initiated the Civil War
July 21	1st Battle of Bull Run

1862
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 Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation at a Cabinet Meeting.
September	Antietam Campaign
September 22	Cabinet discussion of Emancipation First printing of preliminary version of Emancipation Proclamation

1863
January 1	Lincoln signed the Final Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation
April-May	Chancellorsville Campaign
June-July	Gettysburg Campaign
November 19	The Gettysburg Address

1864
April 4	Lincoln explained his choices related to emancipation
May-December	The March Toward Richmond
May 5-7	Grant’s Wilderness Campaign
May 7-20	Battle of Spotsylvania
June ’64-May ’65	Petersburg Campaign
September 1	Fall of Atlanta
November 8	Lincoln Re-Elected

1865
April 9	General Lee surrendered
April 14	Lincoln assassinated. (Further details in Lincoln assassination timeline.)

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