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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1861	The South Secedes	Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.
02/01/1861	The South had created a Goverment	At a convention in Montgomery, Alabama, the seven seceding states created the Confederate Constitution, but with greater stress on the independence of each state.
03/04/1861	Lincoln's inauguration	By the time Lincoln had been inaugurated' seven states has seceded.
04/12/1861	Attack on Fort Sumter	At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons taking down Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War had began at that time.
06/01/1861	West Virginia becomes a state!!!!	West Virginia joins the Union!!
07/01/1861	Gen. McDowel gets tossed :)	Lincoln had replaced Gen. McDowell with Gen. George b. McClellan
07/21/1861	The First Battle of Bull Run	Union and Confederate armies fought by Manassas Junction, Virginia. This was the first major battle in the American Civil War. This was also known as The First Battle of Bull Run.
01/01/1862	President Lincoln takes action!	On January 27, President Lincoln issued a war order telling the Union to launch an aggressive action towards the Confederacy, but Gen. McClellan ignored President Lincoln's orders.
03/08/1862	Gen. McClellan lost his command	President Lincoln,issued an order reorganizing the Army of Virginia relieving McClellan of supreme command, but McClellan was given command of the Army of the Potomac, and ordered to attack Richmond.
04/06/1862	Battle of Shiloh	Confederate forces attacked Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant at Shiloh, Tennessee. Federal troops were almost defeated, by the end of the day.
05/01/1862	"Stonewall" Jackson defeats Union Forces	Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson attacked Union forces in late March, forcing them to go back across Potomac
05/31/1862	Battle of Seven Pines	Confederate armies attacked federal forces at seven pines almost defeating them but last minute forces saved the union forces fr5om a big defeat.
06/26/1862	Seven days battle	union and confederate forces fought a series of battle between june 26 and july 2.
07/11/1862	new commander for the union army	General Henry Halleck was named chief of general for union armies
09/15/1862	harpers ferry	Union General McClellan defeated Confederate General Lee at South Mountain and Crampton's Gap in September, but did not move quickly enough to save Harper's Ferry that fell to general jackson.
09/17/1862	Antietam	Confederate forces under General Lee were caught by General McClellan near Sharpsburg, Maryland. This battle was the bloddiest day of the civil war. 2,108 Union soldiers were killed and 9,549 were wounded. 2,700 confederate soldiers were killed and 9,029 were wounded.
12/13/1862	battle of fredricksburg	major-general ambrose e. burnside's forces were defeated in a series of attacks against Confederate forces at Fredericksburg. so burnside was replaced with general joseph hooker.
01/01/1863	Emancipation Proclamation	the emancipation proclaimation declared that all the slaves still living in the slave states were free.
04/27/1863	The Battle of Chancellorsville	Union General Hooker crossed the Rappahannock River to attack General Lee's forces. Lee split up his army attacking the union army in threee places and almost defeating them.
09/19/1863	The Battle of Chickamauga	union and confederate forces met on the tennessee-georgia border near chickamauga creek. after the battle the union army went back to chattanooga and the confederate forces kept control of the battlefield,
11/23/1863	The Battle of Chattanooga	union forces pushed confederate forces away from chattanooga. the win set the stage for general shermans atlanta campaign.
05/01/1864	The Battle of Spotsylvania	General Grant continued to attack Lee. At Spotsylvania Court House, he fought for five days, vowing to fight all summer if necessary.
06/03/1864	The Battle of Cold Harbor	Grant again attacked Confederate forces at Cold Harbor, losing over 7,000 men in twenty minutes. Although Lee suffered fewer casualties, his army never recovered from Grant's continual attacks. This was Lee's last clear victory of the war.
11/01/1864	Abraham Lincoln is Re-Elected	The Republican party nominated President Abraham Lincoln as its presidential candidate, and Andrew Johnson for vice-president. The Democratic party chose General George B. McClellan for president, and George Pendleton for vice-president. At one point, widespread war-weariness in the North made a victory for Lincoln seem doubtful. In addition, Lincoln's veto of the Wade-Davis Bill -- requiring the majority of the electorate in each Confederate state to swear past and future loyalty to the Union b