BY: NATHAN MATOUS

-1860-

• Abraham Lincoln is elected president
• South Carolina secedes from the Union

-1861-

• Texas and other Southern states secede from the Union
• The Condfederate States of America is formed
• Sam Houston is removed as governer of Texas
• The Civil War begins with the firing on Fort Summer

-1862-

• The Conscription Act is passed
• Forty Texas Unionists are hanged in Gainesville
• Union forces capture Galveston

-1863-

• Texas and Confederate forces retake Galveston
• Union forces are defeated at Sabine Pass
• Pendleton Murrah is elected governer

-1864-

• Union forces are defeated
• near Red River

-1865-

• General Lee surrenders to General Grant
• President Lincoln is assassinated
• The last Civil War battle is fought at Palmito Ranch near Brownsvillie