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The Confederates start the war by shooting 50 cannons on Fort Sumner in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The Union army takes a defeat at Bull Run about 25 miles from Washington.
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Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry, then Fort Donelson
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The Confederate lead a surprise attack on Grant, killing 13,000 Union soldiers and 10,000 Confederate.
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Seventeen Union ships move up the Mississippi River and capture New Orleans, South's greatest seaport.
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Lee led 50,000 Confederate soldiers and invades the North planning an attack on Harpers Ferry 50 miles northwest of Washington.
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Confederate soldiers are stopped at Antietam. 26,000 men are dead by nightfall.
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The president of the US replaces McClellan with Burnside in the Union Army in Potomac.
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President Lincoln makes the last Emancipation Proclamation to free all slaves everywhere that held Confederates and enlists the former slaves in the Union Army.
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Joseph Hooker replaces Ambrose Burnside as the Commander of Potomac
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Stonewall Jackson dies from his injuries at a battle in Chancellorsville, greatly affecting the South.
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Confederate soldiers and General Lee plan an invasion on the Union into Pennsylvania, leading to Gettysburg.
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The Union Armies plan a big attack- Grant in Virginia, moving toward Lee's army in Richmond. Sherman in the west, invading Johnston's army in Tennesee
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General Lee of the Confederate surrenders to Ulysses Grant in Virginia.
