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Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States
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South Carolina secedes from the union
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Southern States of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana all secede from the union
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Jefferson Davis elected as provisional president of the Confederate States of America
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Jefferson Davis is inagurated
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Texas secedes from the union
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Abraham Lincoln is inagurated
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Fort Sumter surrenders to the southern forces
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Virginia secedes from the union
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Arkansas secedes from the union
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North Carolina secedes from the union
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Battle of 1st Bull Run
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Battle of Wilson's Creek
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Battle of Ball's Bluff
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Missouri admitted into the confederacy
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Battle of Shiloh
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Battle of 2nd Bull Run
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Emancipation Proclamation is issued by Lincoln
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Battle of Gettysburg
Robert E. Lee is infamously known for losing the battle through poor strategy. He is also recorded to have gone onto the battlefield viewing all of the dead soldiers saying "this is all my fault boys, all my fault." -
Sherman's "March to the Sea"
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Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattix, Virginia
Robert E. Lee surrenders and then leaves soon after. -
Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's theatre by John Wilkes Boothe
Boothe is let in the theatre by an accomplice and then shoots lincoln in the back of the head with a consealable small pistol. -
Abraham Lincoln dies of his injury
Lincoln is shot in the back of the head at ford's theatre and is treated unitl he dies in his bed. -
The Civil War is offically over
