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President Lincoln issues proclamation, preventing rural Southern states from the ability to be well supplied during the war.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee assumes command replacing Johnston, leaving McClellan unimpressed.
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Lincoln issues final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in terrotories held by Confederates and encourage the enlistment of African-American soldiers.
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Union is now in control of mississipi after last Confederate stronghold surrenders to General Grant. Confederacy is effectively split into two.
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General Rosecran of the Union Army is captured under the Confederates in Chattanooga, Tennessee due to a Confederate victory at Chickamauga.
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Lincoln makes a two minute speech at a ceremony dedicating the Battlefield.
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During an offensive against fortified rebels at Cold Harbour in Virginia Grant makes a huge mistake resulting in 7000 Union casualties.
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After a decisive Union victory, Gen. Sherman being a march to the sea along with 62000 men. He reaches Savannah, offering Lincoln the town as a Christmas present, leaving behind a 300 mile path of destruction all the way from Atlanta.
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U.S congress approces the thirteenth ammendment to abolish slavery. It is yet to be ratified.
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Lincoln is laid to rest in Oak Ridges Cemetary, where he suppossedly said to his wife Mary, "I could spend the rest of my life here."
