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Confederate victory - Union surrenders the fort in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Confederate victory in Manassas, Virginia. Union gerneral Irwin McDowell removed from command.
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Confederate victory. Union general George McClellan removed from command.
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Union victory in Shiloh, Tennessee allows US Grant to continue with plan to take control of Tennessee and Mississippi rivers.
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Confederate victory. Union general John Pope relieved from command.
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Union victory in Sharpsburg, Marlyland. General Robert E. Lee is forced to retreat back into Virginia.
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President Abraham Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation which frees slaves in confederate territory. He would sign the order on January 1, 1863.
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Confederate victory in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Union general Ambrose Burnside removed from command.
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Confederate Victory. Union general Joseph Hooker removed from command.
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Union general US Grant surrounds Vicksburg, Mississippi and forces the confederates to surrender giving the Union control of the Mississippi River.
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Union victory in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Union forces led by General William T. Sherman advance from Chattanooga to Atlanta, capturing the key confederate railroad junciton.
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Union general US Grant lays siege to the city of Petersburg, Virginia which contains one of the last rairoad links to the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia. General Robert E. Lee forced to evacuate on April 2, 1865.
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Confederate victory that temporarily checks the Union's advance toward Atlanta.
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President Lincoln defeats George McClellan in the presidential election of 1864.
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Union general William Sherman marches from Atlanta to Savannah leaving a path of destruction through Georgia.
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Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to US Grant in Appomattox Virginia ending the Civil War.
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President Lincoln in assassinated. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President.
