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| 1863 |
| | | President Lincoln, in honouring the Union dead at Gettysburg, captures in three minutes the essence of American democracy | |
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| 1864 |
| | | Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman become Lincoln's two leading generals in the final thrust of the Civil War | |
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| 1864 |
| | | Grant moves south in a hard-fought campaign to pin down Lee's Confederate army at Petersburg, near Richmond | |
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| 1864 |
| | | The Federal government confiscates the Arlington estate of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and turns it into a war cemetery | |
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| 1864 |
| | | William Tecumseh Sherman captures Atlanta, the first important southern city to fall into Union hands | |
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| 1864 |
| | | President Lincoln is re-elected for a second term, thanks largely to recent Union successes on the Civil War battlefields | |
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| 1864 |
| | | William T. Sherman reaches the coast and captures Savannah, after his violently destructive 'march to the sea' | |
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| 1865 |
| | | The Confederate government abandons Richmond, and Lee begins a retreat to the west | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Lincoln visits the Confederate capital at Richmond and is greeted by a jubilant crowd of freed slaves | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Lee surrenders to Grant at the Appomattox Court House, and is offered conciliatory terms | |
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