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1861 attack on fort sumter
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may 1861 upper south rejoins confederacy
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The United States Sanitary Commision was created
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McDowell attacked
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grant advanced south along tennessee river
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union gunboats pounded fort henry into surrender
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Johnstons forces surprised Grants troops & fighting spreat 6 miles long
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Lee retreated South territiories
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naval sqaudron fought past two forts to force surrender of new orleans
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Confederate congress passed the draft law requiring at least three years of military service for all white men from ages eighteen to thirty-five
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Because of the war stores were selling bags of salt that were origanlly two dollars for sixty dollars.
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union navy seized memphis tennessee
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United States Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act with little to no resistance.
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southerners had created the strange looking vessel by bolting iron plates to an old wooden steamship called merrimeck
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president lincoln ordered his troops to make a similar vessel called the monitor.
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late june of 1862 combined forces attacked mcglellans larger army in encounters called
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Lee's army bypassed the Union and slipped into western Maryland.
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The two armies met at Antietam Creek, Lee had 40,000 troops and McClellan had over 75,000 troops
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Abe Lincoln freed the rebellion slaves that were in the area of him.
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Abe Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
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The measure allowed the wealthy people to buy their way out of required military service
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Union Blockage, and food riots erupted in southern cities. Nearly 1,000 women looted bakeries in Richmond.
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In New York City mobs of white people vented their rage at the draft for the Civil War
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As the war continues African Americans soliders earn less then what the white soliders are earning.
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Pope ordered 62,000 soliders to smash Jackson also at the time Lee attacked Jackson with the main body of the Confederate Army
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Combined forces attacked McClellan's larger arm in encounters called "Seven Days Battle" Sending Union, McClellan, to retreat.
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The fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry led the attack on a fort.
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Abraham Lincoln dies, due to being shot
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Conderate forces surrender 50,000 survivors return, over 60,000 died in battle, double of that died from infection and disease.
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Nearly 180,000 African Americans were enlisted into the Union Army.
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Slavery is abolished