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March: morrill tariff act April: Sumter falls war begins mobilization begins April-may: Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina secede June: United States sanitary commission produced July: battle of bull run
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February: legal tender act, battles of fort Henry and fort donelson March: battle of the monitor and the Merrimac, march- August: George b mcclellans peninsular campaign, march: battle of glorieta pass April: battle of Shiloh
April: confederate conscription act april: David farragut captures New Orleans may: cinco de Mayo Mexican Tripp’s repel French invaders may: homestead act June-July: seven days battles July: pacific railway act July: morrill land grant act August: Sanger Sioux uprising in Minnesota September: battle of Antietam December: battle of Fredericksburg -
January: emancipation proclamation February: national bank act March: draft introduced in the north and colonel kit carson sends 8000 Navajos on the “long walk” to bosque redondo, New Mexico territory
April: Richmond bread riot may: battle of chancelorsville June: French occupy Mexico City July: battle of Gettysburg July: surrender of Vicksburg July: New York City draft riots November: battle of Chattanooga November: union troops capture Brownsville, Texas -
March: Ulysses s grant becomes general in chief of union forces April: fort pillow massacre may: battle of the wilderness may: battle of spotsylvania June: battle of cold harbor June: Maximilian becomes emperor of Mexico September: Atlanta falls
October: St. Albans incident November: Abraham Lincoln re-elected president november- December: William tecumseh Sherman’s march to sea -
April: Richmond falls April: Robert e lee surrenders at appotamox April: Lincoln assasinated December: thirteenth amendment to the constitution become law