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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
11/06/1860	Lincolns Election
12/20/1860	Southern state secession dates	Seven states seceded by February 1861: •South Carolina (December 20, 1860) •Mississippi (January 9, 1861) •Florida (January 10 1861) •Alabama (January 11 1861) •Georgia (January 19, 1861) •Louisiana (January 26 1861) •Texas (February 1 1861) After Lincoln called for troops, four more states seceded: •Virginia (April 17, 1861) •Arkansas (May 6, 1861) •North Carolina (May 20 1861) •Tennessee (June 8 1861)
04/12/1861	Battle of Fort Sumter	The bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
07/21/1861	Battle of Bull Run/Manasses	It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
03/08/1862	Monitor and Merrimack fight	A naval battle of the American Civil War, famous for being the first fight between two ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia.
04/06/1862	Battle of Shiloh	A major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
09/17/1862	Battle of Antietam	The first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil.
09/22/1862	Emancipation Proclamation	An executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War under his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced.
12/11/1862	Battle of Fredericksburg	Fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.
04/30/1863	Battle of Chancellorsville	Major battle of the American Civil War.
05/08/1863	Siege of Vicksburg	Final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
05/10/1863	Stonewall Jackson Killed	His death was a severe setback for the Confederacy, affecting not only its military prospects, but also the morale of its army and of the general public.
06/20/1863	West Virginia becomes a state	West Virginia was the only state to form by seceding from a Confederate state, and was one of only two states formed during the American Civil War.
07/01/1863	Battle of Gettysburg	The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War,it is often described as the war's turning point.
07/03/1863	Battle of Little Roundtop	Of the 2,996 Union troops engaged, there were 565 casualties (134 killed, 402 wounded, 29 missing); Confederate losses of 4,864 engaged were 1,185 (279, 868, 219).
11/19/1863	Gettysburg Address	Speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the best-known speeches in United States history.
03/09/1864	Grant takes command	The 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods.
11/08/1864	Lincoln gets reelected	Lincoln ran under the National Union banner against his former top Civil War general, the Democratic candidate, George B. McClellan. McClellan was the "peace candidate" but did not personally believe in his party's platform.
11/12/1864	Sherman's March to the sea	Late in 1864, General William Sherman left Atlanta to head towards the Atlantic Ocean. He moved through Macon and Augusta and ended up in Savannah. There were few troops to stop him and his forces on the way and they left destruction in their wake.
04/09/1865	Surrender at Appomatox Courthouse	Final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
04/15/1865	Lincolns Assassination	Lincoln was shot in the back of the head at point blank range by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln died the next day, after never waking from the coma.
12/06/1865	13th amendment	Abolishes slavery
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/01/1860 to 12/31/1865	Civil War