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Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as president of U.S.
Lincoln was the president during the Civil War. He was a Republican and was in office from 1861-1865. He was re-elected but did not live to see the end of slavery, for he was asassinated in 1865 (see John Wilkes Booth) directly after the Civil War had ended. -
Fort Sumter fired by rebel forces
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First Battle of Bull Run (Mannassas)
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Union forces capture Fort Henry & Fort Donelson
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Seven Days' Battle
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Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was expected to lead the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Davis, instead, was chosen as the president of the Confederate States .Lee accepted his presidency and had to form a government and an army at the smae time. -
Lincoln relieves McClellan of command
In the summer of 1861, Pres. Lincoln gave George McClellan command of the Union army in the East. McClellan had restored his army's confidence after being defeated at Bull Run. McClellan was fired after his loss at Battle of Antietam in November of 1862. -
Emancipation Proclamation is issued
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Battle of Gettysburg takes place
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Union takes Vicksburg
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Grant is put in charge of all Union armies
Grant was an unlikely war hero of the Civil War. The general was given charge after General Pickett had failed an attack. Grant was one of the very few to be willing enough to fight Rober E. Lee. Grant had somehow managed to defeat Lee and his Confederate army, and win the Civil War for the Union. -
Lincoln re-elected as president
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Thirteenth Amendment is passed
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General Lee and the Confederates surrender to Grant and the Union at Appomattox Court House
Robert E. Lee was one of the greates war generals the Confederacy had ever seen. He had never been defeated, until the Civil War that is. Lee and his Confederacy had surrendered to the Union, after he knew that his army could no longer stand. -
Lincoln is assasinated by Booth
John Wilkes Booth was a Confederate supporter. Booth and his accomplices had come up with a plan to end the man that brought and end to the Confederate States, Licoln assasinated Lincoln on April 14th 1865 during a play. Licoln had officially not lived to see the end of slavery or the Reconstruction.
