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Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president.
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Start of the war
Confederate Troops opened fire on Fort Sumter.
http://www.care2.com/causes/on-this-day-1861-civil-war-begins-as-the-confederacy-attacks-fort-sumter.html -
Battle of Shiloh
Fought in Tennesse. CSA lost this battle.
http://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Important_Battles_of_the_Civil_War -
Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest single-day of war.
http://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Important_Battles_of_the_Civil_War -
Emancipation Proclamation
This document declared all slaves forever free. Except the border slave states. They denied the proclamation
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Battle of Vicksburg
We needed to control the Mississippi River because thats how the South exported their goods. It was surrounded for months.
http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/ms011.htm
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Battle of Gettysburg
Union won after Pickett's Charge. The South army retreats back to VA.
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Presidential Speech (Gettysburg Address)
Lincoln reminds the people WHY the Union had to fight in the Civil War. It is a very brilliant and moving speech. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-delivers-gettysburg-address -
Battle of Chattanooga
Following th worst defeat, Lincoln dispatched 3 generals to Chattanooga.
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End of Civil War
Robert E. Lee surrenders to general Grant at the Appomattox Court House.
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Lincoln Assasination
While Lincoln was watching a play. A man named 'John Wlikes Booth shot him. He was pronounced dead 9 hours later.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrintr.html