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By IsraelF

  • 1861

    1861
    The Confederates began firing upon Fort Sumter the attack lasted 34 hours Union soldiers fired back, but they were forced to surrender and the Confederates won.

  • 1862

    1862
    September 17, 1862 - The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen.Five days after the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.This document stated that on January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the Confederacy were emancipated, or freed.

  • 1863

    1863
    By the spring of 1863, General Robert E. Lee’s army had defeated the Union in several battles.
    On July 1, 1863, Lee’s army met Union troops under General George Meade in the small farm town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
    November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldiers National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.

  • 1864

    1864
    In November 8, 1864, voters re-elected Abraham Lincoln. In March 1865, Grant was closing in on Lee at Petersburg.

  • 1865

    1865
    Remaining Confederate surrendered. The Nation is reunited as the Civil War ends. Over 620,000 Americans died in the war, with disease killing twice as many as those lost in battle,But lots of people survived.