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confederacy is formed
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1st battle of bull run
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Military Draft
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Monitor battles Merrimack
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New Orleans falls to the Union
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Lee becomes comander
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Batlle of Antieam
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battle of Fredericksburg
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signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
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battle of Chancellorsville
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Attack on Ft. Wagner
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Quantrill burns Lawrence
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Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Adress
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Grant takes supreme command of the union army
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Battle of Vicksburg
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Battle of Cold Harbor
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Sherman burns Atlanta
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Lincoln wins re-election
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Sherman reaches the sea
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the thirteenth amendment is ratified abolishing all slavery
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Lincoln second Inaugural speech
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Richmond falls to the union army
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Appomattox Court House
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Lincoln is assassinated