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Battle of fort Sumter
A federal outpost in Charleston, Southern Carolina that was attacked by confederate troops, beginning the civil war it was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln won 180/183 electoral votes in free states.Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell. -
First battle of Bull Run
. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run beyond Centreville. This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. -
second Battle of Bull run
The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, led by General Robert E. Lee, defeated the Union's Major General John Pope and his Army of Virginia. -
Battle of Antietam
Its also known as the battle of Sharpsburg, it was the bloodiest single bay battle of the civil war and of history. -
Empacipitation proclamation
Order to free confederate states. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle of Gettysburg
Key battle that finally turned the tide against the confederates. -
Gettysburg adress
Lincoln praised the bravery of union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning civil war. -
Surrender of confederate forces
sherman closed in on the last confederate defenders in North Carolina at the same time. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
President Lincolns wife attended a play at Fords theater in Washington D.C. During the play, southerners who opposed Lincolns policies sneaked into the theater box and shot Abraham Lincoln
