Civil War 1860s-1865s Rebecca Sims

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
11/01/1860	President Elections	Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected as President. Not all of the people in the United States of America supported having President Lincoln elected.
12/20/1860	Seceding States, A Country Falling Apart	On this date South Carolina became the first state to leave the Union. Which may incourage other states to leave the Union. South Carolina was scared that President Lincoln would try to put a stop to slavery, so South Carolina left to make their own country which will soon lead to bad things.
02/01/1861	The Country Falling Apart More?	In Febuary, 1861 six more states left the Union for the same reason South Carolina left. The states that left included: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Lousiana, and Texas.
03/01/1861	President Job Begins	On this date Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as President. President Lincoln is now in charge of our country.
04/12/1861	War beginning?	The Cofederates, the seceded staes, fired upon Fort Sumter and began the Civil War.
09/22/1862	Statements, Laws, and Bills	A statement was issued by President Lincoln a little after Lincoln had been in office for a year.
01/01/1863	Emancipation Proclamation	The statement LIncoln issued goes into effect. The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect saying all enslaved people would be freedthat are in the rebelling Confederate areas.
07/08/1863	Morgan Raid	John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate general, disobeyed orders and took his cavalrymen across the Ohio River into Southern Indiana, this was called the Morgan Raid.
11/01/1863	Colored Troops also?	The Twenty-eigth United States Colored Troop was formed by Union African Americans.
04/09/1865	Ending of a Long-fought war	Civil War ended when Confederate general Robert E. Lee decided it was time to stop fighting and surrendered and Ulysses S. Grant accepted Lee's surrender at the Appomattoy Court House in Virginia.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/01/1860 to 12/31/1865	Civil War time