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Seven states seceded by February 1861: •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)
After Lincoln called for troops, four more states seceded: •Virginia (April 17, 1861)
•Arkansas (May 6, 1861)
•North Carolina (May 20 1861)
•Tennessee (June 8 1861) -
The bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
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It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
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A naval battle of the American Civil War, famous for being the first fight between two ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia.
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A major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
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The first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil.
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An executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War under his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced.
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Fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, 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.
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Major battle of the American Civil War.
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Final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
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His death was a severe setback for the Confederacy, affecting not only its military prospects, but also the morale of its army and of the general public.
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West Virginia was the only state to form by seceding from a Confederate state, and was one of only two states formed during the American Civil War.
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The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War,it is often described as the war's turning point.
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Of the 2,996 Union troops engaged, there were 565 casualties (134 killed, 402 wounded, 29 missing); Confederate losses of 4,864 engaged were 1,185 (279, 868, 219).
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Speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the best-known speeches in United States history.
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The 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods.
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Lincoln ran under the National Union banner against his former top Civil War general, the Democratic candidate, George B. McClellan. McClellan was the "peace candidate" but did not personally believe in his party's platform.
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Late in 1864, General William Sherman left Atlanta to head towards the Atlantic Ocean. He moved through Macon and Augusta and ended up in Savannah. There were few troops to stop him and his forces on the way and they left destruction in their wake.
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Final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
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Lincoln was shot in the back of the head at point blank range by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln died the next day, after never waking from the coma.
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Abolishes slavery
