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Abraham Lincoln Becomes President
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Lincoln had two other children. An older sister and a younger brother who died an infant. When young Abraham was 9 years old his mother died of tremetol (milk sickness) at age 34. This was devastating to him. A few months after Nancy's death Thomas married Sarah Bush Johnston, a Kentucky widow with three children of her own. Though the parents were most likely illiterate, Sarah encoura -
South Carolina secedes from the Union
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Mississippii secedes from the Union
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Florida secedes from the Union
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Alabama secedes from the Union
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Georgia secedes from the Union
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Louisiana secedes from the Union
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Texas secedes from the Union
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Confederate Constitutioin adopted
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Jefferson davis inaugurated as president of the confederacy
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Civil War Starts
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Virginia secedes from the Union
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arkansas secedes from the union
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Tennessee secedes from the Union
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North Carolina secedes from the Union
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Lincoln Requests an army
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First battle of bull run
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battle of chesapeake bay
Confederate Ironclad USS Merrimack Battles Union USS Monitor -
battle of Shiloh
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Robert E Lee Comands Confederate army
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Seven Day Battle
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Second battle of bull run
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battle of antietam
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emancipation proclomation
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Military draft signed
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battle of chancellorsville
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Stonewell Jackson Dies
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battle of gettysburg
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draft riot in new york city
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battle of chickamauga
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Gettysburg address
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battle of chattanooga
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Ulysses S Grant becomes general in cheif of the Union Armies
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battle of the wilderness
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battle of cold harbor
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siege of petersburg
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confederacy approves enlistment of slaves for freedom
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battle of five forks
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siege of petersburg ends
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Lincoln was assasinated by James Wilkes Booth
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End of the Civil War by Declaration
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jefferson Davis is Captured
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Slavery abolished