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South Carolina withdraws from the Union.
Two months after - Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
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Jefferson Davis forms the Confederate States of America as president who was once a U.S. Army officer
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Confederates fire 50 cannons at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Virginia leaves from the Union
Five weeks after - Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina
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Robert E. Lee accept the offer of command of the military and naval forces of Virginia for the Union
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The Union faces defeat at Bull Run and are pushed back to Washington. Confederate's army resist Union attacks.
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Confederate leads a surprise attack the Union at Shiloh on the Tennessee River. 13,000 Union soldiers were killed and 10,000 Confederates.
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75,000 Union soldiers were defeated by 55,000 Confederates at the second battle of Bull Run in northern Virginia. The Union Army was forced to retreat back to Washington again
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This was the bloodiest day in the U.S. military history at Antietam in Maryland. By the night, 26,000 men were wounded, missing, and dead. Robert E. Lee and his troops withdrew themselves to Virginia.
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In Fredericksburg, Virginia, Unions lost 12,653 after 14 assaults on Rebel's land. Confederate lost 5,309
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President Lincoln passes the final draft of the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all slaved in Confederate territories. Black soldiers were able to enlist in the Union Army.
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The Yankees are defeated by Lee's smaller troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. The Confederate's General Stonewall Jackson was wounded by one of this own soldiers. Union lost 17,000 out of 130,000. The Confederates lost 13,000 out of 60,000.
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Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania changed the gist of the war.
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The last Confederate blockade on the Mississippi surrendered to General Grant. The Union now is control of Vicksburg and the Confederacy is split into two.
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The Union's general made a mistake and cost the lives of 7,000 casualties in 20 minutes during an offensive battle against the Rebels at Cold Harbor in Virginia
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Rebel Army of 23,000 is crushed at Nashville by 55,000 Federal Unions including Negro troops. The Tennessee Confederate Army came to an end of the fighting force.
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U.S. Congress approves 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery would be put to an end and then submitted to the states for approvement.
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Confederate General Ambrose P. Hill is killed. Rebel capital, Richmond, is evacuated. Break out and fires broke loose. Union troops raise the Stars and Stripes.
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The Stars and Stripes are raised over Fort Sumter. Lincoln goes to a play with his wife when John Wilkes Booth shoots him in the head. He died on April 15, 1865.
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Confederate forces surrender and the Nation become one again. The Civil War ends. 62,000 Americans died and there were 50,000 survivors.
