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Abraham Lincoln, is elected president, the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote, also he declared the South a State in rebellion
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The battle was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter a federal outpost , near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the US Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor.
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Was the first major battle of the civil warn, and the confederates victory. The battle is also know as the first Battle of Manassas,it shattered the North's hope of winning the war quickly , also the rebels had won that day . President Lincoln realizes the war will be long. "It's damned bad," he comments.
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Jackson's troops met Pope's union forces on the battlefield. (Three day battle)second battle of Manassas.
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The Battle of Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek, the confederate leaders hoped to follow up Lees success, the Union and confederate forces were involved , Lees northward advance was stopped.
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Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation the order to free confederate slaves" All persons held as slaves within any State or designed part of a state the people where of shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward , and forever free"
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The key battle that finally turned the tide against the confederates, General George G. Meade's Calvary, Union Forces, confederate raiding party.
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The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history, this led Lincoln rededicate himself to wining the war.
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Sherman close in on a last confederate defenders in North Carolina.
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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was a tragedy lost, the people say he was assassinated because of the new slave laws/rules , and he was shoot in the theater.
