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South Carolina Secedes
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Mississippi Secedes
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Florida Secedes
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Alabama Secedes
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Cenfederate States of America is Formed and Fefferson Davis is named its President
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The first election of President Abraham Lincoln
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Attack on Fort Sumter BY the confederacy
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Gen. Ulysses S Grant gets Union victories at Fort Henery and Fort Donelson in Tennessee
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Battle of Ironclads
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Battle of Shiloh
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David Farragut and the Union Navy captures the sea port of New Orleans
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Gen. Robert E. Lee is given command of the Army of Northern Virginia
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The 7 day Battle
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Secound battle of Bull Run or Secound Manassas
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battle of Antietam
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President Lincoln issues the Emancepation Proclamation
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President lincoln is elected for a 2nd term
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Battle of Fredricksburg
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The Union enacts a law creating first military draft of men into the army
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Battle of Chancellorsville
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Confederate Gen. Thomas "stonwall" Jackson dies
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Fall of Vicksburg
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Opening of POW campAndersonville
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The Wilderness Campain
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Battle of spotsylvania
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Battle of Cold Harbor
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Battle at peetersburg
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union Gen. William T. Sherman burns Atlanta, GA. to the Ground and begins his march to the sea
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Abraham lincoln gets re-elected for president
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Union General William T Sherman finishes his march to the sea and captures savannah, GA.