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Abraham Liclicon elected 16th president of the United States of Amercia by beating Stephen Douglas.
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South Carolina is the first to seced.
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South Carolina December 20, 1860
Mississippi January 9, 1861
Florida January 10, 1861
Alabama January 11, 1861
Georgia January 19, 1861
Louisiana January 26, 1861
Texas February 1, 1861
Virginia April 17, 1861
Arkansas May 6, 1861
North Carolina May 20, 1861
Tennessee June 8, 1861 -
missippi is the second state to secede.
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Alabama Seceds
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Georgia Secedes
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Texas seceds
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Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated.
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the first battle of the war had no casualties. the confederate army won the battle of fort sumter.
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Licclons Proclamation calls for 75,000 mititimen, and a session of Congress on July 4th.
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Virginia succedes
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Lee Joins Conferdate Army because Virginia seceed and that was his home.
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Arkansas Seceds
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north carolina succedes
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McClellan became the commander of the Union army.
Everytime he is commander he loses battle. -
March 8–9, 1862
Both Sides Victory
Is Famous for being the first fight between two ironclad warships. -
April 6-7, 1862
Union Victory
As a result of the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson, Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, the commander in the area, was forced to fall back, giving up Kentucky and much of West and Middle Tennessee. -
After McClellan, pope gains control of the Union army
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The Union army is defeated by the Confertate army at Manassas.
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August 28–30, 1862
Conferdate Victory -
August 28–30, 1862
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September 17, 1862
Union Victory -
December 11–15, 1862
Conferderate Victory
A battle between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. -
December 11–15, 1862
Confederate win
Stonewall battle
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April 30 – May 6, 1863
Confederate Victory
Robert E Lee's risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force resulted in a Confederate victory. The victory, a product of Lee's audacity and Hooker's timid combat performance, was tempered by heavy casualties and the mortal wounding of Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson to friendly fire, a loss that Lee likened to "losing my right arm." -
April 30 – May 6, 1863
Jackson "Stonewall" dies on friendly fire.
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May 18 – July 4, 1863
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May 18 – July 4, 1863
Union Victory
n a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
July 1–3, 1863
Overall Union Victory
Lee want to end this war and goes to the north to attack.
On the first day the Confederates won, the 2nd and last day were the Union's victory. Pickitt's Charge was when the Union drew the Confederates out of the North. -
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June 9, 1864 – March 25, 1865
Union Victory -
June 9, 1864 – March 25, 1865
Union victory -
July 22, 1864
Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John B. Hood.
After a Union siege and various attempts to seize railroads and supply lines leading to Atlanta. After the city was taken, Sherman's troops headed eastward toward Savannah on his famous March to the Sea. -
December 15–16, 1864
represented the end of large-scale fighting in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15–16, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood and Federal forces under Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas. In one of the largest victories achieved by the Union Army during the war, Thomas attacked and routed Hood's army, largely destroying it as an effective fighting force. -
Passed on January 31, 1865
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
April 9, 1865
Lee's final stand was at Appomattox Court House, where he launched an attack to break through the Union force to his front, assuming the Union force consisted entirely of cavalry. When he realized that the cavalry was backed up by two corps of Union infantry, he had no choice but to surrender. -
April 14, 1865
Abraham was assassinated by an actor John Wilkes Booth.
