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Abraham Lincoln is elected president, and the southern states are furious.
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South Carolina first state to secede from the union.
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Confederacy is founded.
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Fort sumter is fired upon and surrenders to confederate forces
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South wins the battle at bulll run.
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Grant captured forts Henry and Donelson.
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Farragut captures New Orleans for the Union.
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He leads an unsuccessful campaign on the peninsula southeast of Richmond.
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South wins the second war at bull run, giving them both victories there.
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McCellan defeats Lee at the battle of Antietam.
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He issues preliminary Emancipation proclamation.
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Lincoln issues final emancipation Proclamation.
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North gains major victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
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Atlanta burns to the ground as Sherman passes through.
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Lincoln is re-elected president, defeating McClellan.
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Sherman marches through Georgia and takes Savannha but doesnt burn the city down but gives it to Lincoln as a bday present.
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Congress passes 13th amendment abolishing slavery.
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Grant captures Petersburg and Richmond, and Lee surrenders at Appomattox.
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Lincoln is assasinated by John Wilkes Booth at a theatre.
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Remaining Confederate forces surrender.
