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South Carolina is the first state to secede.
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Confederate troops opened fire on Union Fort Sumpter.
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Union troops under Major Anderson surrender the fort.
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Upper south secedes.
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Lincoln declares martial law, enabled military to arrest anyone suspected of helping the enemy.
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Confederate general Stonewall Jackson defeats the Union at the Battle of Bull Run.
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Lincoln issues the first and second Emancipation Proclamations.
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Grant captures forts Henry and Donelson.
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General Ulesses S. Grant defeats the south in one of the bloodiest battles.
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McClellan leads an unsuccessful mission to capture Richmond.
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South wins the second Battle of Bull Run
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George McClellan stops general Lee from pushing further, result is the bloodiest day in American histiory.
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turning point of the war.
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Gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi.
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Lincoln beats McClellan in the presidential election.
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Sherman marches through Georgia and burns all the cities but Charleston.
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13th amendment passed freeing all slaves.
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Abraham Lincoln was assasinated in a theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth.
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Grant captures Petersburg, and Richmond.
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Lee surrenders to Grant at the Appotomax court house.
