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the nation is split. Licolin hasn't gotten a single vote from any southern state. rumors spred that if he should be elected a vast majority of the southern states would secced. As minnites turn to hours and hours to day, the time has come. November 6th 1860 votes have been talied and lincoln is called! Screams insue in the crowds and ear to ear smile are seen through out the audience, but behindcclosed doors, southern doors sceems to seced are blooming......
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The Secession of South Carolina began on 24 December 1860. The birth of the southern rebellion is a more proper discription. Using the enogoration of Lincoln as a lightning rod to bring more to there cause. And now the pieces that lead up to the greatest loss of Amerians in history will unfold.....
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after south carolina seceded from the U.S. a chain of staates would fallow. mississippi, the second state to join the cofederacy would lead a fellow state to there new confederate dream.
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like mississippi florida would fallow right after to the confederacy.
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This date marked the beginning of the bloodiest war in US history that would be called The Civil War
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Unlike the seven sates to secced form the Union Virgina along with three more states secceded only after licoln called upon the union troops
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On July 21, 1861 the First Battle of Bull Run occurred. It was the first real major conflict of the American Civil War.
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with Tennessee's secesstion, marks the last of the the states to join the Confederate cause. And now makes the eleven cofederate states of America
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harrper's farry had three different battles and each with there own succes and fail.
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Despite having superiority of numbers, McClellan's attacks failed to achieve concentration of mass, allowing Lee to counter by shifting forces along interior lines to meet each challenge.
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is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War. The Union Army suffered terrible casualties in futile frontal assaults on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city, bringing to an early end their campaign against the Confederate capital of Richmond.
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Robert E. Lee concentrated his full strength against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac at the crossroads county seat of Gettysburg. On July 1, Confederate forces converged on the town from west and north, driving Union defenders back through the streets to Cemetery Hill.
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this is the the day Lincoln read out to the people the Emancipation Proclimation. Giving slaves in (THE SOUTH) freedom on the fist of the years.
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The President had said that, "...taking Chattanooga is as important as taking Richmond." Rails from the city linked major distribution centers of the Confederacy; it was a key in his plan to "divide and conquer" the Confederacy.
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Longstreet and Burnside raced for Campbell’s Station, a hamlet where the Concord Road, from the south, intersected the Kingston Road to Knoxville. Burnside hoped to reach the crossroads first and continue on to safety in Knoxville; Longstreet planned to reach the crossroads and hold it...
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General Grant arranged two campaigns for the year 1864. One, under his own immediate direction, was for the seizure of Richmond, the Confederate capital; the other was for the seizure of Atlanta, Ga., the focus of several converging railways.
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On the morning of June 1, 1864, Hoke's division attempted to retake Cold Harbor. It was repulsed, but was reinforced by McLaws's division.
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Robert E. Lee determined to make one last attempt to escape the closing Union pincers and reach his supplies at Lynchburg. At dawn the Confederates advanced, initially gaining ground against Sheridan’s cavalry. The arrival of Union infantry, however, stopped the advance in its tracks
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approximately 10:15 P.M on Friday, April 14, 1865 Booth opened the door to the State Box, shot Lincoln in the back of the head at near point-blank range...
