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The southern states that seceded create a government at Montgomery, Alabama, and the Confederate States of America are formed.
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Southern forces fire upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The Civil War has formally begun.
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May 10, 1865- Confederate President Jefferson Davis is captured near Irwinville, Georgia.
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General Simon Bolivar Buckner enters into terms for surrender of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, which are agreed to on June 2, 1865.The Civil War officially ends.
