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Confederacy os formed
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1st Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of Wilson's Creek
This was the first major battle of the Trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. It was fought near Springfield, Missouri between Union forces and the Missouri State Guard, it is sometimes called the "Bull Run of the West." The casualties were about equal on both sides – around 1,317 Union and 1,230 Confederate soldiers were either killed, wounded, or captured -
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Monitor Battles the Merrimack
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Lee becomes Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
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Battle of Antietam
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Battle of Fredricksburg
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Signing of Emancipation Proclamation
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Battle of Chancellorsville
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Battle of Vicksburg
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Attack on Ft Wagner
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Quantrill burns Lawrence
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Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address
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Military Draft-draft is enacted for first time in history
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Grant takes supreme command of the Union Army
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Battle of Cold Harbor
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Battle of Westport
Sometimes referred to as the "Gettysburg of the West" was fought in Kansas City Missouri. Union forces under Major General Samuel R. Curtis decisively defeated an outnumber Confederate force under Major General Sterling Price. This engagement was the turning point of Price's Missouri Expedition, forcing his army to retreat and ending the last significant Confederate operation west of the Mississippi River. -
Lincoln wins Re-election
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Sherman burns Atlanta
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Sherman reaches sea dividing South
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Lincoln 2nd Inaugural Speech
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Richmond falls to the Union Army
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Appomattox Court House
The final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War. -
Lincoln is Assasinated
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13 Amendment is ratified abolishing all slavery
