Civil War Timeline / Chronology for April 15

Civil War Timeline
Chronology for April 15
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April 15, 1793	[circa] Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin	Georgia
	Causes of the Civil War
April 15, 1861	President Lincoln calls for 75,000 voluteers for three months service to deal with the "insurrection."
	Abraham Lincoln
April 15, 1861	Braxton Bragg places Lt. John Worden under arrest in Pensicola, Florida, making him the first prisoner-of-war in the American Civil War
	Braxton Bragg
	Civil War Firsts
April 15, 1861	Rejecting Lincoln's call for troops, Tennessee Governor Isham Harris orders a second session of the state legislature to consider the question of a secessionist convention.	Tennessee
April 15, 1862	Union naval forces enter the mouth of the Mississippi and sail up the river to Fort Jackson
	Battle of New Orleans
April 15, 1865	Abraham Lincoln dies in a boardinghouse opposite Ford's Theater. Andrew Johnson takes the oath of office.
	Abraham Lincoln
	Andrew Johnson
April 15, 1954	Appomattox Court House (or simply Appomattox) is deginated a National Historical Park	Virginia
	Appomattox (or Appomattox Court House)

April 12, 1861 May 10, 1865	The American Civil War
	The Civil War