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  Fort Sumter attacked by Confederate
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  Seven Days' Battles begins near Richmond
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  First battle of Bull Run/Manassas in Virginia
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  Moniter VS Virginia
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  Battle of Shiloh
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  Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
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  Battle of Antietam
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  Issued on this date
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  Mid-May
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  Battle of Gettysburg begins
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  led a Herioic charge ( no specific date )
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  Lincoln gives Gettysburg Address to honor the fallen soldiers at Gettysburg.
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  A series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capital
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  Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant