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Abraham Lincoln has won the race to become president. He is the person in the Republican party to win. He is also the first person who is elected to become president, who dislikes slavery.
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The southern states that seceded create a gov. at Montgomery, Alabama, and the Confederate States of America are formed.
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Jefferson Davis is appointed the first president of the Confederate States of America, at Montgomery, Alabama, a position he will hold until elections can be arranged.
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Southern forces fire upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Civil War formally beginning.
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Pres. Lincoln issues a public delcaration that an insurrection exists and calls for 75,000 militia to stop the rebellion. As a result of this call for volunteers, f4 additional Southern States secede from the Union in the following weeks. Lincoln will respond on May3, with additional call for 43,000+ volunteers to serve for 3+ years, expanding the regular army.
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Union forces cross the Potomac River and occupy Arlington Heights, the home of future Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It is during the occupation of nearby Alexandria that Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, commander of the 11th New York Infantry and a close friend of the Lincoln's is shot dead by the owner of the Marshall House just after removing a confederate flag from its roof.
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The first land battle of the war in Virginia is the Battle of Big Bental.
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The Battle of Antietam was the single bloodiest day of the Civil War. Since the Union won, General Lee's invasion on the North came to an end. Then, Lincoln made an Emancipation Proclamation, which freed every slave in the Confederate states.
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The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect. Applauded by many abolitionists including Fredrick Douglas, there are others who feel it does not go far enough to totally abolish slavery.
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The Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia. General Lee's victory is marred by the mortal wounding of "Stonewall" Jackson, who dies on May 10. Soon after, Lee asks Jefferson Davis for permission to invade the North and take the war out of Virginia.
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The final battle of The Civil War takes place at Palmito Ranch, Texas. It is the Confederate victory
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis is captured near Irwinville, Georgia
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General Simon Bolivar Buckner enters into terms for surrender of the army of the Trans-Mississppi l, which are agree to on June 2, 1865. The Civil War officially ends.
