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Civil War
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Lincolns Election
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Southern state secession dates
Seven states seceded by February 1861: •South Carolina (December 20, 1860)
•Mississippi (January 9, 1861)
•Florida (January 10 1861)
•Alabama (January 11 1861)
•Georgia (January 19, 1861)
•Louisiana (January 26 1861)
•Texas (February 1 1861)
After Lincoln called for troops, four more states seceded: •Virginia (April 17, 1861)
•Arkansas (May 6, 1861)
•North Carolina (May 20 1861)
•Tennessee (June 8 1861) -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. -
Battle of Bull Run/Manasses
It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. -
Monitor and Merrimack fight
A naval battle of the American Civil War, famous for being the first fight between two ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. -
Battle of Shiloh
A major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. -
Battle of Antietam
The first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. -
Emancipation Proclamation
An executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War under his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
Fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Major battle of the American Civil War. -
Siege of Vicksburg
Final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. -
Stonewall Jackson Killed
His death was a severe setback for the Confederacy, affecting not only its military prospects, but also the morale of its army and of the general public. -
West Virginia becomes a state
West Virginia was the only state to form by seceding from a Confederate state, and was one of only two states formed during the American Civil War. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War,it is often described as the war's turning point. -
Battle of Little Roundtop
Of the 2,996 Union troops engaged, there were 565 casualties (134 killed, 402 wounded, 29 missing); Confederate losses of 4,864 engaged were 1,185 (279, 868, 219). -
Gettysburg Address
Speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the best-known speeches in United States history. -
Grant takes command
The 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. -
Lincoln gets reelected
Lincoln ran under the National Union banner against his former top Civil War general, the Democratic candidate, George B. McClellan. McClellan was the "peace candidate" but did not personally believe in his party's platform. -
Sherman's March to the sea
Late in 1864, General William Sherman left Atlanta to head towards the Atlantic Ocean. He moved through Macon and Augusta and ended up in Savannah. There were few troops to stop him and his forces on the way and they left destruction in their wake. -
Surrender at Appomatox Courthouse
Final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War. -
Lincolns Assassination
Lincoln was shot in the back of the head at point blank range by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln died the next day, after never waking from the coma. -
13th amendment
Abolishes slavery
