Civil war timeline

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    Lincoln elected to the presidency

    The southern did not like lincoln. Lincoln was a Republican. And the Republican Party opposed slavery. Lincoln never said he wanted to end slavery in the South.
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    Fort sumter

    The war took place over two days general beauregard he sent a message that he would fire in a hour to the fort sumter lost 620,000 americans
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    Battle of bull run

    The battle took place on july,21 1861 at the start of the civil war.The confederates won the battle.Took place in manassas
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    Battle of antietam

    The battle of antietam was on september 17, 1862 between the union and the confederacy during the civil war. the military standpoint neither side was the winner in the battle of antietam.
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    Emancipation proclamation signed

    50,000 slaves were set free but not all the slaves.All slaves in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the union
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    Battle of vicksburg

    Union forces defeated Confederate forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi. This victory gave them control of the Mississippi River. And it split the states of the Confederacy. ... Union General Ulysses Grant had been trying to seize Vicksburg for several months.
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    Battle of gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863 is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War after a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville general gobert e. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863
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    Gettysburg address

    The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg Pennsylvania on the afternoon of Thursday November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the
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    Sherman march (to the sea)

    From November 15 until December 21, 1864 Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah georgia the purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause
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    Surrender at appomattox courthouse

    On April 9 1865 near the town of Appomattox Court House Virginia Confederate general robert e Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S Grant but the resulting Battle of Appomattox Court House which lasted only a few hours effectively brought the four-year Civil War to an end.
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    Assassination of lincoln

    The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln John Wilkes Booth leaps from the President's box at Ford's Theater after shooting Lincoln and stabbing Major Rathbone. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War its bloodiest war and its greatest moral constitutional, and political crisis.