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Fort Sumter
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Army created
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McClellen is General
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Tenesee Taken
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Merrimac VS Monitor
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Battle of Shiloh
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New Orleans Taken
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7 days battle
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Battle of Antietem
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Second Battle of Bull Run
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Emancipation proclomation declared
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McClellen fired again Burnside hired
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Battle of Fredericksburg
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Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect
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Hooker replaces Burnside
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Grant is becomes commander of Army of the West
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Conscription act
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Lee defeats Hooker at Chancellorsville
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"Stonewall" Jackson dies
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Lee leads 75,000 into North
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Lincoln makes George Meade commander of the Army of the Potomac
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conscription riots
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Grant takes Vicksburg; splits South in two
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54th Massachusetts Regiment form assault on Fort Wagner (they lose)
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Lincoln gives Gettysburg Address
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General Sherman starts toward Atlanta with 100,000 men
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Lincoln makes Grant head of all U.S. armies. William Tecumseh Sherman succeeds Grant in Army of the West
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Battle of Cold Harbor
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Grant begins 9 - month siege of Petersburg and Lee's troops
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Democrats nominate George McClellan to run against Lincoln
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Congress passes 13th Ammendment - to abolish slavery
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Lee attempts to break Grant's forces.
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Grant breaks Lee's troops, he is forced to retreat. Union raises stars and stripes in Virginia the next day
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Lee surrenders
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Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.