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The first Election of President Abraham Lincoln
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1. South Carolina
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2. Mississippi
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3. florida
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4. alabama
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5. georgia
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6. Louisiana
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7. texas
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Battle of fort sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. -
The surrender of Fort Sumter to the Confederacy
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8. virginia
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10. tennessee
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9. arkansas
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11. North Carolina
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first battle of bull run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas, was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas, not far from Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. -
Confederate States of America is formed and Jefferson Davis is named its President
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David Farragut and the Union Navy captures the seaport of New Orleans
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Gen. Ulysses S. Grant gets Union victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee
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battle of the ironclads
The Battle of Hampton Roads, often referred to as either the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack or Virginia or the Battle of Ironclads, was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies. -
battle of shiloh
On the morning of April 6, 1862, 40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. -
General Robert E. Lee is given comman of the Army of nothern Virginia
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The 7 days battle
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7 days battle
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Second battle of bull run
The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas was fought August 28–30, 1862 in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the American Civil War. -
battle of antietam
The Battle of Antietam /ænˈtiːtəm/, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek -
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
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batlle of fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army -
The Union enacts or passes a law creating the first military draft of men into the army
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Battle of chancellorsville
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Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson dies
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capture of vicksburg
In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. With the loss of Pemberton’s army and this vital stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in half. Grant's successes in the West boosted his reputation -
The battle of gettysburg
The First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War took place on July 1, 1863, and began as an engagement between isolated units of the Army of Northern Virginia under Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Army of the Potomac under Union Maj. Gen. George G. Meade. -
The opening of the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville
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battle of petersburg
Battle Of Petersburg Casualties. Battle Of Petersburg Summary: The Battle of Petersburg (aka Siege of Petersburg) was a series of battles around the cities of Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, fought from June 9, 1864, to March 25, 1865, during the civil war. -
Battle of cold harbor
Cold Harbor was the final battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign, which began in early May 1864 with the Battle of the Wilderness. -
Battles of the wilderness
On May 5, 1864, the Union Army of the Potomac once again locked horns with the Army of Northern Virginia in the dense thickets known as the Wilderness of Spotsylvania. Over the course of two days, the two armies fought to a bloody stalemate, inaugurating a new era of violence in the war in the East. Though badly bloodied in the fighting, the Federals continued their march to the south. -
Battle of spotsylvania
From May 5 to May 12, 1864, the Army of the Potomac lost around 32,000 men (killed, wounded or missing) in the Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House--more than for all Union armies combined in any previous week of the war. -
Union General William T. Sherman finishes his march to the Sea and cuptures Savannah, GA.
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President Lincoln is re-elected for 2nd term
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Union Gen. William T. Sherman burns Atlanta GA. to the ground and begins his March to the sea
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Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia falls
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Confederacy and Gen. Robert E. Lee surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, VA.
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President Lincoln dies and Vice President Andrew Johnson takes over as president of the U.S.
