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On an island in the Harbor of Charleston, South Carolina the beggining of the civil war started with Robert Anderson (leader of the confederacy) comand for his army to fire at the fort. Luckily no one was killed.This wasn't a real battle, at the beggining the north did not want to fight but this declared the beggining of war.
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The leading generals were Waxing and Beauregard, and the confederates were on the retreat. General Stonewall Jackson stood his brigade through and ended up winning for the confederacy when General Johnston helped them out.
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In Pittsburg, Tennessee. Fought by General Ulysses Grant of the Union, and General Johnston Confederacy. Johnston was killed and the confederates were surrounding them, but Grant showed up with reinforcements and drove them back, giving them control of the Tennessee River. The battle lasted 2 days and the Union won.
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After the first bull run, the Northern general Pope decided to combine armies with another general. Ended August 30 in Manassass.
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Near Sharpsburg, Maryland, general McClellan attacked and drove back General Lee, but did not pursue after bloody battle and McClellan was fired after the battle.
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In Fredericksburg, Virginia, Union General Burnside crossed the Potomac River to attack the entrenched confederacy. After five days the union recrossed the Potomac and gave up due to staggering failure. Ended December 15.
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This proclamation was issued three years in the civil war by president Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Proclamation said to free all the slaves held by the south, but it did not frre slaves in the boarder states. Thanks to this proclamation now black mens were accepted to fight in the Union trrops.
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Ended on March 9. Ironclads, or iron boats, decided to take out the wooden naval blockade commanded by Captain Marshton. The Merriac, a Union IronClad showed up and pushed back the Confederacy, and the Confederacy retreated.
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General Hooker versus Lee in Chancelorsville, VA. The Union stopped in Chancerlorsville due to increasing large confederate force in a defensive position. Ended May 6.
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With general Ulysses S. Grant leading the north and Pemberton leading the south this battle lasted 2 month, till July 4 1863. At the end it was a Union win. Because they won the union got control of the Mississippi river and the south was finally split in two.
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The bloodiest battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Maede versus Lee. General Pickett (Confederacy) charged in and his troops gained heavy losses. Lee retreated.
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This battle took place in Georgia on the 16 of July 1864 it lasted till Sptember 2 of the same year.General William Tecumseh was the leader of the nothern army and Sherman hood took the lead in the south.This battle lasted several month but in the end it was a union victory.
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The Ratification of the 13 Amendment was proposed on January 31st 1865. By the end of the year 27 states includind 8 in the south had ratified the amendment. Slavery was officialy banned
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Lee wanted to keep on fighting but he knew he couldn't, not without loosing the rest of his army anyway. So it was time to surrender for the south. This surrender took place at Appomatox Court House in a small Virginian town with Lee surendering to Grant.
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Abraham was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's theater at 10:15 P.M. during the play "Our American Cousin"
