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Election of Abraham Lincoln
In 1860, Lincoln won party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election he faced Douglas again, who represented the northern faction of the democratic party. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
A Federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, attacked by Confederate troops began the Civil War. -
First Battle of Bull Run
This battle was the first major battle of the Civil War and resulted in Confederate victory. -
Second Battle of Bull Run
The Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) proved to be the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign waged between Union and Confederate armies in northern Virginia in 1862. -
Battle of Antietam
The battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single day in American History. With 23,000 casualties. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle of Gettysburg
Union victory which stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee second invasion of the north. There were more than 50,000 casualties. -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln delivered speech at the end of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The speech is come to be known as Gettysburg Address. -
Surrender of Confederate forces
The Surrender Correspondence at Appomattox. On April 2nd, 1865 Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered his beleaguered Confederate forces to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
