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A federal outpost in Charleston, Southern Carolina that was attacked by confederate troops, beginning the civil war it was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter.
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Lincoln won 180/183 electoral votes in free states.Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell.
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. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run beyond Centreville. This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia.
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The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, led by General Robert E. Lee, defeated the Union's Major General John Pope and his Army of Virginia.
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Its also known as the battle of Sharpsburg, it was the bloodiest single bay battle of the civil war and of history.
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Order to free confederate states. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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Key battle that finally turned the tide against the confederates.
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Lincoln praised the bravery of union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning civil war.
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sherman closed in on the last confederate defenders in North Carolina at the same time.
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President Lincolns wife attended a play at Fords theater in Washington D.C. During the play, southerners who opposed Lincolns policies sneaked into the theater box and shot Abraham Lincoln
