Students, history and Civil War buffs can have answers lickety split at their fingertips. This timeline in 6 laminated pages includes the critical people and events that played a part in this heroic and tragic turning pointTopics covered include: . The Crisis of the Union, 1848-1856 . The Specter of Secession, 1857-1860. The War Begins, 1861 . The Fighting Deepens, 1862 . The Turning Point, 1863. The Union's Hard Road to Victory, 1864. The War at Sea & on the Rivers, 1861-1865 . The War on the Home Front, 1861-1865 . The Union Preserved, 1865. Presidential Reconstruction, 1863-1866 . Radical Reconstruction, 1867-1877