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Lincoln Elected President
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South Carolina Secedes
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the Confederate States of America is formed
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Lincoln Inaugurated
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Battle of Fort Sumter
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First Battle of Manassas
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Grant Given Command of U.S
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Battles of Ft. Henry and Donelson
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Battle of the Iron Clads
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Battle of Shiloh
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Battle Of New Orleans
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Peninsula Campaign
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Battle of Antietam
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Stonewall Jackson Killed
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Gettysburg
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Vicksburg
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Port Hudson
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Red River Campaign
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Battle of Wilderness and Spotsylvania
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Battle of Petersburg
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Sherman burns Atlanta
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Freeman's Bureau Created
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Unconditional Surrender at Appomattox
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Lincoln Assassinated
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Plessey v. Ferguson
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Creation of the Ku Klux Klan
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13th Amendment
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Memphis Race Riot
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Oscar Dunn Elected as Lt. Governor of Louisiana
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14th Amendment
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New Orleans Race Riot
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Ulysses S. Grant Elected President
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John Menard Elected to U.S House of Rep.
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Hiram Revels Elected to U.S Senate
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15th Amendment
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Blamche Bruce Elected to U.S Senate
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Rutherford B Haynes Elected President Ending Reconstruction