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  Civil War began on April 12, 1861
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  General Irvin attacked smaller confederate force.
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  Russia emancipates serf’s First ironclad warship completed in England.
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  Commander Lee named head of Confederate armies
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  Merrimack attacked a group of union ships
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  Lincolns aim was not to defeat slavery he wrote if could
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  The south was surrounded by Union forces
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  First Geneva Convention establishes rules for treatment of prisoners of war.
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  the ending of the civl war
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  Conflict at fort South Carolina, started civil war.