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Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire marking the start of the Civil War
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west virginia becomes a state
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President Lincoln replaces McClellan with Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside as the new Commander of the Army of the Potomac
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General Robert E Lee marches North towards Pennsylvania (a journey which leads to Gettysburg)
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Battle of Gettysburg - major Union victory but massive casualties
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The president meets with abolitionist Frederick Douglass regarding equality for Union 'Negro troops.'
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President Abraham Lincoln dedicates a portion of the Gettysburg battlefield as a national cemetery, and delivered the "Gettysburg Address."
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to General Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia
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Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary go to Ford's Theater to see the play "Our American Cousin" . During the third act of the play John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head at approx 10:13 p.m.
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Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary go to Ford's Theater to see the play "Our American Cousin" . During the third act of the play John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head at approx 10:13 p.m.
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General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to General Sherman near Durham in North Carolina.
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Abraham Lincoln is laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery, outside Springfield, Illinois
