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The election of Abraham Lincoln had worried many southern states that they could not keep there slaves.
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The southerners seceded becuase they feelt that Abraham lincoln would take away there slaves. The states that seceded met in Montgomery ,Alabama to from the confederate states
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In the spring of 1861 tense between the north and the south was brutal then the first shots were fired.
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Confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's on unprepared troops so 13,000 died and wounded from the union and 10,000 died and wounded from confederates.
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The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces. By nightfall 26,000 men are dead, wounded, or missing. Lee then withdraws to Virginia.
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The Union Army under Gen. Hooker is decisively defeated by Lee's much smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia as a result of Lee's brilliant and daring tactics.
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Lincoln was shocked that the south states seceded so he tried to reunite the north and the south.
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A costly mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties in twenty minutes during an offensive against fortified Rebels at Cold Harbor in Virginia.
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Lincoln was shot at Petersen House, Washington, D.C. and John Wilkes Both killed him
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A victory parade is held in Washington along Pennsylvania Ave for the U.S.A and the thirteen amendment as added