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Civil War
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Lincoln announces blockade of all confederate ports
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Conscription law
All able-bodied unmarried white men eighteen to thirty-five years of age, and later seventeen to fifty years of age, were eligible for a three-year service under the draft, but the law's effectiveness was weakened by its exemptions and provisions for -
David G. Farragut took over New Orleans
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Second Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of Antietam
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Lincoln reelected
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Grant and Lee battle at Cold Harbor
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Gen.Sherman took Atlanta
