Civil War Timeline / Chronology for February 18

Civil War Timeline
Chronology for February 18
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February 18, 1825	With the support of many Northern states, Senator Rufus King of New York introduces a bill calling for the creation of a fund from the sale of public land to carry out gradual emancipation.	New York
February 18, 1851	At a hearing in Boston escaped slave Shadrach Minkins is taken from court by free blacks. He eventually showed up in Montreal, Canada, out of the reach of the slave hunters	Massachusetts
February 18, 1861	Jefferson Davis is inaugurated "Provisional President of the Confederate States of America" in Montgomery	Alabama
	Jefferson Davis
	Convention of Seceding States
February 18, 1862	The first Congress meets in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to this time, legislative duties had been carried out by secessionist convention	Virginia
February 18, 1862	West Virginia Constitutional Convention adopts the first constitution of the state of West Virginia	West Virginia
	West Virginia Constitutional Convention
February 18, 1863	A Democrat Convention in Richmond, Kentucky, is broken up by federal authorities because some members were pro-Confederate	Kentucky
	Democratic Party
February 18, 1865	Charleston is surrendered	South Carolina
February 18, 1870	Texas ratifies the 14th Amendment	Texas
	14th Amendment

June 15, 1864 April 2, 1865	Siege of Petersburg	Virginia
	Robert E. Lee
	P. G. T. Beauregard
	Army of Northern Virginia
	Ulysses S. Grant
	Siege of Petersburg
April 12, 1861 May 10, 1865	The American Civil War
	The Civil War
February 4, 1861 February 27, 1861	Washington Peace Conference (also called Convention or Congress)
	Felix Zollicoffer
	Salmon P. Chase
	John Tyler
	Washington Peace Convention