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Abraham Lincoln was elected as president and he promised to put an end to slavery
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- South Carolina secedes from the Union. Followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
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Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as president
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Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor
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The Union surrenders Forst Sumter without a single death
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Arkansas and North Carolina secede
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The first major battle of the Civil war occurs, the Union charged the Confederates and they stood there ground and forced the Union to retreat
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Victory for Ulysses S. Grant in Tennessee, capturing Fort Henry, and ten days later Fort Donelson. Grant earns the nickname "Unconditional Surrender"
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Confederate surprise attack Union troops at Shiloh
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75,000 Federals under General John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under General Stonewall Jackson
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The bloodiest day in U.S. military history, by night fall 26,000 men are dead, wounded, or missing
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Lincoln passed this law that freed all slaves
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The Union Army under Hooker is decisively defeated by Lee's much smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia as a result of Lee's brilliant and daring tactics.
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The tide of war turns against the South as the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
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A decisive Confederate victory by Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga leaves William Rosecrans' Union Army of the Cumberland trapped in Chattanooga
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President Lincoln delivers a two minute Gettysburg Address at a ceremony dedicating the Battlefield as a National Cemetery.
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The Rebel siege of Chattanooga ends as Union forces under Grant defeat the siege army of Gen. Braxton Bragg
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costly mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties in twenty minutes during an offensive against fortified Rebels at Cold Harbor in Virginia
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Atlanta is captured by Sherman's Army
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aham Lincoln is re-elected president, defeating Democrat George B. McClellan. Lincoln carries all but three states with 55 percent of the popular vote and 212 of 233 electoral votes
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Sherman, with 62,000 men begins a March to the Sea and they destroy everything in their path
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Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolishes slavery throughout the United States.
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Lincoln is inaugurated as President for a second term.
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Union troops occupy RIchmond, the Confederates capital
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Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox.
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John Wilkes Booth shoots President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater; Secretary of State William H. Seward is stabbed and wounded in an assassination attempt inside his Washington home.
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US declears peace with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
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Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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The Klu Klux Klan is established
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US finally declares peace with Texas
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Congress passed law, Blacks can now vote in the District of Columbia
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Nebreska becomes a state
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US buys Alaska from Russia
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Congress pass a bill that allowed Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union.
