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Inauguration of President Lincoln
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Fort Sumter is taken by the Confederates
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Civil War
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North and South clash at Shiloh
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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
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The Union wins at Gettysburg and Vicksburg
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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
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The Confederate vessel Hunley makes the first successful submarine attack in history.
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Lincoln appoints Grant commander of Union armies.
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Abraham Lincoln is reelected.
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Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox.
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President Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
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Andrew Johnson becomes president after Lincoln's assassination.