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Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas follow, forming the Confederate States of America, with Jefferson Davis as president
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Confederates fire on Fort Sumpter
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Grant wins a Union victory
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Lee defeats Hooker at Chancellorsville and Stonewall Jackson is killed
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Sherman's Atlanta campein was known as his "march to sea" which along the way he helped the Union by destroying Confederate land.
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Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox.
