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Battle of Fort Sumter
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First Battle of Bull Run (First Battle of Manassas)
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Battle of Hampton Roads (Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack)
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Battle of Shiloh
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Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Battle of Manassas)
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Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)
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Emancipation Proclamation
Issued by Abraham Lincoln, it declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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Battle of Chancellorsville
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Siege of Vicksburg
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Gettysburg Address
Delivered by Lincoln at a ceremony for the dedication of the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. He discussed the principles of equality in the Declaration of Independence and connected the sacrifices of the Civil War with the preservation of the Union. -
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The Battle in the Wilderness
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Battle of Spotsylvania
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Appomattox Courthouse
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President Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. He was pronounced dead at 7:22am the next day.