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President Lincoln is elected without any Southern votes. This is significant because it started he war. After Lincoln was elected South Caroling seceded. -
South Carolina seceded from the United States. The state seceded because Abraham Lincoln, had been elected president. South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union -
Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort. So one of the confederates attacked Fort Sumter and end up starting the Battle of Fort Sumter. 86 soldiers surrendered the fort on April 13 -
The Confederate got a victory. The Union army from Virginia and laid the groundwork for the Confederate invasion of Maryland. In the Second Battle of Bull Run, Confederate forces under General Lee defeated a Union army. -
The battle at Antietam, Maryland, is regarded as a Union victory for Union forces in the East. It what marks the bloodiest single day of the war, the South loses 10,316 troops, and the North suffers casualties of 12,401. -
Burnside gets defeated at Fredericksburg in Virginia and he had at least 12,653 men. -
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. It states that all persons held as slaves with the rebellious states and should be free. The proclamation also allows black men to serve in the Union army. -
The war turns against the South and the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. -
Vicksburg was the last Confederate war. But they surrenders to Grant. And now the Union is in control of the Mississippi. -
The Battle of Fort Wagner was an unsuccessful assault led by the 54th Massachusetts, an African American group that fought in the war -
Abraham Lincoln wants everyone to honor the soldiers who had died at Gettysburg. So he made a Gettysburg Address to let everyone know about the whole situation. -
Sherman marched himself and 200,000 men and they went 60 miles to march to the sea. They basically went to destroy confederates supplies. -
The 13th Amendment passed. It abolished slavery prohibited involuntary servitude, nullified the fugitive slave act and the 3/5 compromise. -
Lee called for surrender in a small Virginia town. Grants goal was to go home in peace.
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