Civil war

Civil War

By mkrohne

  • Abraham Lincoln elected President

  • South Carolina becomes first state to secede

  • Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as President

  • Civil War begins at Fort Sumter

  • First Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Antietam

  • President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation

  • Union Blockade of Mississippi River

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Battle of Vicksburg

  • Cemetary dedication at Gettysburg, with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

  • Savannah, Georgia fell to Union after Sherman's March to the Sea

  • Confederacy surrendered ending the Civil War

  • Abraham Lincoln assassinated

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