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Abe Lincoln is elected president
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South Carolina secedes from the union
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The USS Star of the West is fired upon in Charkeston Harbor
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Mill's Spring is the site of another scirmish
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Davis is inaugurated president of the CSA
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Lincoln is inaugurated as persident
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Confederate fire on Fort Sumter, officially beginnning the war.
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The fort surrenders to confederate forces
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Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers
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Virginia secedes from the union andsoonafter joins the confederacy.
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West Virgina creates its own government
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A battle is fought at Wilson's Creek in the South
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A strategic battle is fought in the region known as Ball's Bluff
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The fort is taken after an intense battle
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Big battle around Shiloh church
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The Union takes New Orleans under the leadership of Farragut
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A battle is fought at the historic Williamsburg area
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Robert E Lee takes command over confederate forces
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Major Confederate win boosts morale
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Harper's Ferry falls to the Confederates
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The bloodiest single day battle of the warsends in a tie
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Lincoln proclaims southern slaves free with his famous Emancipation Proclamation
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Bread riots occur in starved Virginian lands
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Stonewall Jackson is killed by friendly fire at this long battle
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Jackson dies from his wounds at Chancellorsville. A huge confederate loss
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Union gains more momentum in the deep south with this battle
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West Virginia is admitted to the Union
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The Union victory here turns the tide of the war
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Grant wins a big victory at the Mississippi River
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Draft riots break out in the big city
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The war rages on with another long battle at Chickamauga
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Lincoln deticates the battlefield with the most famous speech in American history
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The fighting remains fixed in the South with the battle of Chatenooga
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Union forces take Fort Pillow
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The Atlanta campaign begins
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Union forces begin attackingPetersburg
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Union gets a strong foothold by taking Atlanta
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Union continues to gain a handle on the south
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Grant solidifies possition
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Lincoln defeats Mcllelan in election
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Sherman begins his famous March to Sea
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Grant makes his way south through this battle
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The Union captures Fort Fisher
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A conference for making peace is finally held
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Lincoln is inaugurated for his second term
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Davis flees capital as it falls to the Union
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Lincoln visits the aftermath of the Richmond seige
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Lincoln dies from the gunshot wound
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Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
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booth shoots lincoln at Ford's Theater
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Booth is trackeddown and shot by Union troops
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Jefferson Davis is captured in Gerogia
