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Abraham Lincoln is elected as 16th president
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South Carolina secedes from the Union
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Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas all secede from the union.
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The Confederate States of America are formed by the seceded states.
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Jefferson Davis is appointed as the first president of the Confederacy until electrons can happen.
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Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States.
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Civil War begins when Congederate forces, under Gen. Pierre Beauregard, shoot at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
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President Lincoln asks for 75,000 volunteers to help stop a rebellions in the south. As a result, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina secede from the union.
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Lincoln establishes martial law in the U.S.
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President Lincoln issues Proclamation 81. This proclaims a blockade against all Southern ports.
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Union Commander Colonel Elmer Ellsworth is shot dead by a southerner after removing a Confederate flag from the man's roof.
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President Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in an effort to quell the Southen rebellion.
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First Battle in Virginia, Battle of Big Bethel, happened.
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Battle of Bull Run
Union Gen: Irwin McDowell
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First naval battle between two ironclads, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia.
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The Battle of Shiloh
This battle is the first major battle in Tennessee. Union General Ulysses S. Grant is the Union general and is one of the main reasons we won the battle. Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston is killed on day one of the battle. -
The Battle of Second Bull Run
This battle was fought in the same place as the first Battle of Bull Run. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee used the Army of Northern Virginia to defeat Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia. -
The Battie of Antietam
This battle lead to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation being declared. It is known as the single bloodiest day of the Civil War. The Union was lead by Gen. George McClellan who lead them to victory. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was defeated in this battle, putting an end to his first Northern invasion. -
The Battle of Fredericksburg
Union leader General Ambrose Burnside lead the Army of the Potomac to sound defeat at the hands of Confederate leader Robert E. Lee and his forces in this battle. The battle was very one sided and resulted in 12,653 Union casualties. -
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamtion.
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The Battle of Chancellorsville
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee achieved his greatest victory against Union Gen. Joseph Hooker after flanking and surprising Hooker's forces. Although the great Confederate victory, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a victim of friendly fire and eventually succumbed to his injuries. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
In this battle, Union commanders George Meade and John F. Reynolds led the Union to victory over Confederate leader Robert E. Lee. This battle had the highest amount of casualties of any land battle in the Civil War. -
Battle of Chickamauga
In this battle, Sen. Off. Braxton Bragg led the Confederate army to victory over Off. William Rosecrans and the Union army. This battle had the second highest casualty number of any land battle in the Civil War. -
Lincoln publicly speaks the Gettysburg address stating that the Civil War wasn't just any War, but a war for human equality.
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Battle of Chattanooga
In this battle, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant led his forces to victory over Confederate Gen Braxton Bragg and his forces. At one point in the battle, Union forces storm a Confederate position atop a hill shouting "Chickamauga!, Chickamauga!," causing the encampment to retreat. -
Battle of Cold Harbor
In this battle, Confederate Gen, Robert E. Lee led Confederate forces to victory over Union commanders Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Off. George. Meade. At one point in the battle, a Union assault on a fortified Confederate encampment led to 7,000 Union casualties in a 20 minute period. -
President Lincoln approves Gen. Sherman's plan to march his troops east from Atlanta to the sea.
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Sherman reaches Savannah Georgia leaving a huge path of destruction in his wake.
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Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in a farmhouse in Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
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President Lincoln is assassinated.
Lincoln is fatally shot by Confederate actor John Wilkes Booth while seeing the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. Maj. Henry Rathbone was present in the box when Lincoln was shot and was stabbed in the arm, nearly bleeding out. -
President Lincoln is pronounced dead at 7:22 AM.
