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Fort Sumter
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Lincoln calls 75,000 volunteers for 90 days
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Robert E. Lee resigns for U.S. Army
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CSA moves capital from Montgomery, AL, to Richmond, VA (most powerful Southern state)
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Britain declares its neutrality
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First Battle of Bull Run/ Manassas
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Lincoln calls in 500,000 troops
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Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan top general
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Grant victories in Tennessee Fort Henry, Fort Donelson
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Ironclads - Monitor vs. Merrimack (Virginia) - Naval warfare changed forever
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Battle of Shiloh
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Battle of Shiloh
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Fall of New Orleans, largest Confederate city, control of lower Mississippi
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Lee takes command of Army of Northern VA
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Seven Days' Battle (UNION WINS)
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Second Bull Run
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Second Bull Run - ENDS
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Battle of Antietam, MD,
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Lincoln announces his intention of Emancipation Proclamation
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Lincoln fires McClellan, hired Burnside
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Battle of Fredericksburg, VA
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Lees army enters Pennskey Ivnia
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Battle of Gettysburg- ENDS
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Pickets charge did not succeeded Union won
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Siege of Vicksburg General Grant succeeds
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Draft Law Riots
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5th Regiment attacks Fort Wagner
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Fort Wagner Mass 54th
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Gettysburg Adress
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Lincoln appoints Grant as head of Union Army
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Union Army marched into Richmond
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Lee surrender at the Appomattox court house
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Battle of Wilderness
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Cold Harbor
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Sherman toke Atlanta
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Death of Peter Vredenburgh JR.
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Lincoln Re-elected
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Sherman Burns Atlanta
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13th amendment -ending all slavery
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Lincolns Assassination