1860 Abraham Lincoln http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jala/21.1/guelzo.html

1861 Firing on the Star Of The West http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/major-anderson-ft-sumter_Dir/first-shot-civil-war.htm

1861 Jefferson Davis was elected as Provisional Confederate President http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov06.html

1861 Lincoln's first inauguration http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/abraham-lincoln-inauguration-1861.htm

1861 The Bombardment of For Sumpter, South Carolina http://www.nps.gov/fosu/2_History/history.htm

1861 Lincoln's blockade of the South. USS South Carolina steamer blocks Galveston, Tx. http://nautarch.tamu.edu/PROJECTS/denbigh/galv01.htm

USS Fort Donelson was a captured Confederate blockade runner formerly named the Robert E. Lee http://americancivilwar.com/tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships/USS_Fort_Donelson.html

1861 Baltimore was occupied by Union troops http://www.maps-charts.com/Civil_War.htm

1861 Union troops at the Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia http://www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/fairfax.html

1861 The Battle of Carthage, Mo, Crossing Buck Branch http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/august/battle-carthage.htm

1861 First Battle of Bull Run http://www.webbgarrison.com/contents.htm

1861 General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson http://americancivilwar.com/pictures/

1861 The Bombardment of Fort Hatteras http://www.maps-charts.com/Civil_War.htm

1861 The Bombardment of Fort Hatteras and Fort Clark http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/civil-war-fort-hatteras-battle.htm

1861 General Grant occupied Paducah, Ky http://www.webbgarrison.com/thesoldierfull/vol1fullindex.html