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| 1862 |
| | | Lincoln declares in his Emancipation Proclamation that all slaves in any state opposing the Union government 'are and henceforward shall be free' | |
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| 1863 |
| | | After a six-week siege the city of Vicksburg surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant, bringing the entire Mississippi under Union control | |
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| 1863 |
| | | Four days of riots in New York greet Lincoln's new conscription or draft laws, with exemptions for the rich | |
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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 |
| | | President Lincoln is re-elected for a second term, thanks largely to recent Union successes on the Civil War battlefields | |
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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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| 1865 |
| | | On a visit to a Washington theatre, Lincoln is assassinated in his box by John Wilkes Booth | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Vice-president Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, becomes president on the death of Republican Abraham Lincoln | |
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