Perfect Timeline for your studies

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html

1861-1863 - STOP at Vicksburg, July 1863 (where Ken Burns Episode 4 ends)

Here is another good timeline
http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/

conscription
Frederick Douglass
slavery
Benjamin Butler
West Point
Peninsula Campaign
women volunteers
hospitals
Richmond
Albert Sidney Johnston
Shiloh
John Brown
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thomas J. Jackson
George Templeton Strong
William Henry Seward
Salmon P. Chase
Edwin M. Stanton
Emancipation Proclamation
cabinet
Elijah Lovejoy
secessionist
Confederate States of America
Mason-Dixon Line
states rights
James Buchanon
lame duck
European nations
diplomatic recognition
Antietam
Sharpsburg
New Orleans
David Farragut
Mississippi River
Vicksburg
abolitionist
Joseph Johnston
Fort Sumter
Manassas
Bull Run
Barbara Field
Constitution
Three-fifths Clause
inauguration
emancipation
cotton gin
George McClellan
Gustav P.T. Beauregard
Potomac River
Ulysses Grant
Jefferson Davis
Washington D.C.
secession
economic policy
advantages/disadvantages
naval blockade
Crittenden Compromise
West Virginia
Clara Barton
Julia Ward Howe
Harriet Tubman
Mary Boykin Chesnut
contrabands
habeas corpus
minie ball
fire eater
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Twenty Negro Law
Battle of the Seven Days
Robert E. Lee
Anaconda Plan
Winfield Scott
Monitor
Merrimac
CSS Virginia
border states
Election 1860
Fort Donelson
Fort Henry
Mississippi River
federal government
10th Amendment
offensive vs. defensive
disease
war fever
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville