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South Carolina Secedes
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Confederacy is formed
Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Alabama. -
Attack on Ft. Sumter
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1st Battle of Bulll Run
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The Monitor Battles the Merrimack
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New Orleans falls to the Union
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Lee becomes Commander of the army of Northern Virginia
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Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest Day of the war. -
Signing of Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863. -
Battle of Fredricksburg
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Military Draft-The draft is enacted for the first time in History
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Lincoln 2nd Inaugural speech
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Battle of Chancellorsville
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Battle of Gettysburg
Lead to the Gettysburg adress where Lincoln recognizes the troops who fought in the war. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Union Army of the Tennessee waged a fighting campaign of maneuver to isolate the city of Vicksburg and the Confederates defending it. -
Quantrill burns Lawrence
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Attack on Ft. Wagner
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Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
Happens after battle of Gettysburg to recognize the troops. -
Grant takes supreme command of the Union Army.
On a day in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln nominates Ulysses S. Grant for the newly revived rank of lieutenant general. -
Battle of cold Harbor
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Lincoln wins re-election
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Sherman burn Altanta
When, on May 6, 1864, Sherman began to move southward from the vicinity of Chattanooga, his army was confronted by a Confederate force of 55,000 men. -
Sherman reaches the sea (Savannah) Dividing the south.
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Richmond falls to the union army
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Appomattox Court House
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Lincoln is Assassinated
John Wilkes Booth assasanated Lincoln. -
The 13th Amendment is ratified abolishing all slavery
