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Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper.
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The first pony express reaches Sacromento California.
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The Pony Express rider arrives in San Fransico from St Joseph, Mo.
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Republican party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president.
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Southern delegates hold a National Democratic Convention in Richmond, Virginia.
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The US's first successful silver mill is created in Virginia City,Nev.
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Licoln is elected president.Tension between the North and the South start with conflict over how much power the government should have.
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The South Carolina convention votes 159-0 to secede.
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South Carolina secedes from the Union. This is the beginning of the Confederates.
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Harriet Tubman arrives un Auburn NY, for her last attempt at freeing the slaves. She then runs from being captured on the Underground railroad for 8 years.
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Mississippi is the second state to secede from the Union.
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zthe Seceded States adopts a consitution forming the Confederate Sates of America.
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The Confederate States appoint Jefferson Davis as President.
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Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office as the 16th president.
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Fort Sumter was attacted under gen.Pierre Beauregard.
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Virginia secedes from the Union. Followed by Arkansas,Tenesse and North Carolina.
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Lincoln issues a Blockade to keep the South from getting supplies.
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The Union suffers a defeat at Bull Run.
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McClellan replaces McDowell as Commander of the Department of the Potomac.
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Abraham Lincoln appoints Mclellan as general-in-chief of the union army.
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The battle at Fort Donelson. Victory for the Union.
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The Battle at Pea Ridge was a victory for the Union.
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This battle was located at a small church in Tennessee. It was a victory for the confederates.
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The Union takes New Orleans which is one of the Souths biggest seaports.
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Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army attack McCllelan's troop and almost won till Johnston got badly injured.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee replaces Johnston after his injury.
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This was the start of the Seven day battle. Both sides loss many men and McClellan began to withdraw back to Washington.
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President Lincoln assigns Henry W. Halleck as General-in-chief.
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The Second Battle at Bull Run and the Union retreas to Washington.
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The bloodiest battle in U.S History 26,000 men dead or injured by night time. Finally Lee had withdrawn to Virginia.
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The emancipation prroclamation goes into affect.
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Lincoln appoints Joseph Hooker as Commander of the army of the Potomac.
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Gen. Grant is placed in command of the Army of the West, with orders to capture Vicksburg.
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The U.S. Congress enacts a draft, affecting male citizens aged 20 to 45, but also exempts those who pay $300 or provide a substitute.
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The Union Army beats the Confederates much smaller army, but not by much.
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The South suffers with the death of Stonewall Jackson.
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Robert E. Lee charges into the north heading into Pennsylvania.
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President Lincoln appoints Gen. George G. Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac, replacing Hooker.
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Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
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Vicksburg Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, surrenders to Gen. Grant and the Army of the West after a six week siege.
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Confederate victory by Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga leaves Gen. William S. Rosecrans' Union Army trapped in Chattanooga, Tennessee under Confederate siege.
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President Lincoln gives 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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Gen. William T. Sherman succeeds Grant as commander in the west.
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In the west, Sherman, with 100,000 men begins an advance toward Atlanta to engage Joseph E. Johnston's 60,000 strong Army
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Union forces miss an opportunity to capture Petersburg and cut off the Confederate rail lines
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Gen. John B. Hood, who replaced Johnston.
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Democrats nominate George B. McClellan for president to run against Republican incumbent Abraham Lincoln.
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Atlanta is captured by Sherman's Army.
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Union victory by Cavalry Gen. Philip H. Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Abraham Lincoln is re-elected president, defeating Democrat George B. McClellan
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After destroying Atlanta's warehouses and railroad facilities, Sherman, with 62,000 men begins a March to the Sea.
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Hood's Rebel Army of 23,000 is crushed at Nashville.
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The U.S. Congress approves the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, to abolish slavery.
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President Lincoln meets with Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens at Hampton Roads in Virginia, but the meeting ends in failure
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Inauguration ceremonies for President Lincoln in Washington
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- The last offensive for Lee's Army of Northern Virginia begins with an attack on the center of Grant's forces at Petersburg.
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Confederate Gen. Ambrose P. Hill is killed.
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President Lincoln tours Richmond where he enters the Confederate White House.
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Robert E. Lee surrenders to Gen. Grant
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Remaining Confederate forces surrender.
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John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theature.
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President Abraham Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning. Vice President Andrew Johnson assumes the presidency.
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John Wilkes Booth was shot in a barn located in Virginia.
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New Freedman's Bureau bill passed by Congress. President Andrew Johnson vetoes the bill.
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Texas repeals the actions of the Secessionist Convention
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President Johnson vetos the Civil Rights Act of 1866 on the grounds that it was unconstitutional.
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The United States declares a state peace with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
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Congress overrides President Andrew Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Act.
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Winfield Scott dies, West Point, NY.
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Thirty-ninth Congress approves the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
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The U. S. Secret Service begins an investigation into the Ku Klux Klan
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A proclaimation of peace with Texas is issued by United States President Andrew Johnson
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On the 6th anniversary of secession.
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Blacks in Washington D. C. gain the right to vote.
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Nebrska becomes a state.
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Federal army restores military rule to Mississippi.
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Virginia rejects thousand of votes cast by blacks.
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Congress passes the 2nd Reconstruction Act over Andrew Johnson's veto
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President Andrew Johnson demands the resignation of Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War.
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Ulysses S. Grant. becomes ad interim Secretary of War
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Edwin Stanton suspended by President Andrew Johnson
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Russia turns over Alaska to the United States
