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President lincoln was elected November 6, 1860. He took office on March 4, 1861.
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After Prestident Lincoln was elected South Carolina was the first state to be seceded.
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Mississippi was the second state to be seceded.
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Florida was the third state to be seseded.
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Alabama was the fourth state to be seceded.
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Georgia was the fifth state to be seceded.
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Louisiana was the sixth state to be seceded.
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Texas was the seventh state to be seceded.
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Fort Sumter is in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, that was the scene of a bombardment from April 12 to 14, 1861, the opening engagement of the Civil War. There was a Union garrison at the fort under Maj. Robert Anderson, who refused to surrender the fort and was subsequently attacked by Confederates under Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, whose attack forced an evacuation and surrender.
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Lincoln calls for 75000 troops after the defeat at Ft. Sumter, he realized he needed backup volunteers. This is how Tennessee got it's nickname "The volunteer state" because so many volunteers came from Tennessee.
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This was the first major battle of the war. After this battle everyone realized it was not going to be just one battle, and it was going to be a long war.
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McCellen was 34 years old when he became comander of the entire union forces.
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The Battle of Fort Henry was fought on February 6, 1862, in western Tennessee. It was the first important victory for the Union. They won in control of Gen. Grant in the western theater.
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The battle of Fort Donelson was faught on February 11 to February 16, 1862. The union forces captured Fort Donelson.
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The Confederate Merrimack or Merrimac was originally a wooden frigate. Federal troops fled the ship when they evacuated the Naval yard at Portsmouth, Virginia in 1861. Confederate forces raised it, and then covered the ship with iron plates. They renamed the ship Virginia, although I’ll be using Merrimack by which it is better known.
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Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy.
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The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War in southwestern Tennessee.
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Pope was promoted major general in 1862. After securing the Mississippi River for the Union almost as far south as Memphis. Pope attreacted the admiration of President Abraham Lincoln,
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The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas, as it was called by the Confederacy, was fought August 28–30, 1862, as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) fought in 1861 on the same ground.
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23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of savage combat on September 17, 1862. The Battle of Antietam ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia’s first invasion into the North and led to Abraham Lincoln’s issuance of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
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Ambrose E. Burnside, the third Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic was born May 23, 1824, the fourth child of 14 children parented by Edghill and Pamelia Burnside in Liberty, Indiana.
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The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.
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The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign.
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This battle was the turning point of the war. The Confedrates under Robert Lee and the Union under Meade. The 20th Maine saved the Union on Little Round Top.
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This battle happend the same as Gettysburg. This when the confedrates blocked the Mississippi to stop trade for the North.
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General Sherman was in charge of the Union.
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The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15–16, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood and Federal forces under Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, passed by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, Secretary of State William H. Seward, in a proclamation, declared it to have been adopted. It was the first of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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The Richmond–Petersburg Campaign was a series of battles around Petersburg, Virginia, fought from June 9, 1864, to March 25, 1865 during the American Civil War. Although it is more popularly known as the Siege of Petersburg, it was not a classic military siege, in which a city is usually surrounded and all supply lines are cut off, nor was it strictly limited to actions against Petersburg.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
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The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln took place on April 14, 1865, as the American Civil War was drawing to a close, just five days after the surrender of the commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee, and his battered Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, Though an unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson in 1835.
