OOps. this is late

1861:
By a vote of 108,339 to 47,233, Tennessee decides to secede from the United States

Virginia turns its state militia over to the Confederate States of America

1862:  
Affairs on John's Island, South Carolina

Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's notches another victory during the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley. Sent to the valley to relieve pressure on the rest of the Army of Northern Virginia, which had been pinned on the James Peninsula by Union General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac, Jackson's force staged one of the most stunning and brilliant campaigns of the war.

On May 25, Jackson routed a Union force commanded by Nathaniel Banks at Winchester in the northern Shenandoah Valley. The defeat sent panic through Washington, D.C., because Jackson was now poised to invade the capital from the north. President Lincoln ordered Banks to regroup and head south into the valley, while an army under Irwin McDowell headed in from the east, and one under John C. Fremont moved in from the west to pinch Jackson's troops and destroy his army.

Jackson led the Yankees on a chase south through the valley, beating the Union forces to Port Republic, the site of a crucial bridge where the Federals could have united to defeat Jackson. He kept the bulk of his force at Port Republic and sent General Richard C. Ewell and 5,000 troops to nearby Cross Keys. On June 8, Freemont's troops advanced on Ewell's and launched a halfhearted attack that failed to disrupt the Confederate lines. Fremont engaged only 5 of his 24 regiments, followed by a mild artillery bombardment. Casualties were relatively light, with Ewell losing 288 men to Fremont's 684.

Cross Keys was only a prelude to the larger Battle of Port Republic on June 9, but it was another Union failure in Jackson's 1862 Shenandoah campaign.



Engagement at Port Royal, Virginia


1863:  
Affair near Fort Scott, Kansas

Affair near Brunswick, Georgia

Skirmish at Triune, Tennessee


1864:  
Skirmish at Simsport, Louisiana

The Republican National Convention nominates Abraham Lincoln to run for President and Andrew Johnson to run for Vice-President

President Lincoln, nominated for a second term, calls for an amendment abolishing slavery

Congress forbids the private minting of gold coins


1865:  
Skirmish at Fort Dodge, Kansas


Primary sources:
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion ; by Frederick Dyer;
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865 by E. B. Long with Barbara Long;
National Archives Guide Index