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Lincoln Wins Office
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South Carolina First to Secede
South Carolina first to secede from the union -
Mississippi Secedes from Union
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Florida Secedes from Union
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Alabama Secedes from Union
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Georgia Secedes from Union
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Louisiana Secedes from Union
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Texas Secedes from Union
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Battle of Fort Henry
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Battle of Fort Donaldson
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Lincoln Inauguration
Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the sixteenth President of the United States. In his Inaugural Address he gives a stark warning to the South: he will not tolerate secession. -
Confederate Constitution Signed
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Civil War Begins
Confederate forces under General P.G.T. Beauregard bombard Major Robert Anderson and his Union soldiers at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War officially begins. -
Confederates Attack Fort Sumter
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Fort Sumter was Attacked
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Union Surrender at Ft. Sumter
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Virginia Secedes from Union
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Arkansas Secedes from Union
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Tennessee Secedes from Union
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North Carolina Secedes frim Union
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of the Moniter and Merrimack
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Battle and Capture of New Orleans
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Battle of Antietam
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The Emancipation Proclomation
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Lincoln wins re-election
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Robert E. Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse