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His election was important because the South thought the election would lead to demise and that is what started the Civil War.
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They formed the Confederacy.
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The Union Army under Gen Irvin Mcdowell suffers defeat at Bull Run
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On Gen.Ulysses s.Grant unprepared troops at Shiloh on Tennessee river.
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75,000 Federals under Gen. John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under Gen.
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The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam.
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The tide of war turns against the South as the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
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A decisive Confederate victory by Gen.
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The Rebel siege of Chattanooga ends as Union forces under Grant defeat the siege army of Gen.
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A costly mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties in twenty minutes during an offensive against fortified Rebels at Cold Harbor in Virginia.
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After destroying Atlanta's warehouses and railroad facilities, Sherman, with 62,000 men begins a March to the Sea. President Lincoln on advice from Grant approved the idea.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen.
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That night, Lincoln and his wife Mary see the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. At 10:13 p.m., during the third act of the play, John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head.