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Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the Untied States.
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South Carolina was the first States to sucede.
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Formed in February 1861.
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Lincoln's First Inauguration
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Manassas Junction, Virginia
Confederate win
This is Stonewall's final charge that won the battle. -
Shiloh, Tennessee
Union victory
Hurt Confederate army bad and boosted Union moral -
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Union victory
Gained important railroads. -
naer Richmond, Virginia
Confederate victory
Lee saved the south in this battle and pushed the fighting back to northern Virginia -
Manassas, Virginia
Confederate victory
Union sulpply trains were captured and/or destroyed -
Sharpsburg, Mayland
Union victory
Turned the tides for the Union and it was the most men lost in 12 hours. -
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Confederate victory
Burnside is replaced by Joseph Hooker -
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Union victory
The union secured control of Middle Tennessee for the remainder of the war -
"all slaves shall be free" speech
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Chancellorsville, Virginia
Confederate victory
Lee's greatest victory and Stonewall Jackson's death -
May 18-July 4
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Union victory
Union takes Vicksburg which is a key to winning the war -
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Union victory
Turning point of the war and President Lincoln made his speech there 4 months later -
Chickamauga, Georgia
Confederate victory
Union army retreated to Chattanooga -
Lincoln's 260 word speech honoring the fallen Union soldiers at Gettysburg
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near Richmond, Virginia
Not a true victory for either side
First major Union offesive toward the Confederate capital of Richmond -
Spotsylvania county, Virginia
Inconclusive
Part of his mission to take over Richmond but ended in major casualties -
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Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia
Union victory
Beginning of the end of the Confederacy -
Franklin, Tennessee
Union victory
Union was able to make it back to Nashville -
Lincoln's Second Inauguration
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Last battle of the civil war
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The surrender at Appx. Courthouse is considered the end of the war
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Lincoln is assasinated at a movie theatre