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Abraham Lincoln was elected president November 6th, 1860
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(April 12–14, 1861)
General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. -
An act of war against his own country, the act had significant Constitutional, Military and National implications.
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Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run beyond Centreville.
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the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia fight to a draw off Hampton Roads, Virginia. The ships pounded each other all morning but their armor plates easily deflected the cannon shots, signaling a new era of steam-powered iron ships.
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April 6-7
Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. -
June 25-July 1st 1862
A series of six major battles over the seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, near Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War. -
August 28–30, 1862
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. -
It was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with 22,717 dead, wounded and missing on both sides combined.
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(June 7–8, 1862)
minor artillery bombardment by Union Brigadier General James S. Negley against Confederate. -
The Emancipation Proclamation was an order issued to all segments of the Executive branch.
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The Union Army defeated the Confederate military; the war, and secession, ended with the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox
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(May 1–5, 1863)
It was the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville Campaign. -
July 1–3, 1863
It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War. -
It was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
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On this day President Abraham Lincoln signs the final Emancipation Proclamation, which ends slavery in the rebelling states.
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On this day, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified.
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The army is continuing their summer campaign to seize the important rail and supply center of Atlanta.
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President Abraham Lincoln was elected to a second term.
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Sherman led destroyed Atlanta warehouses and railroad facilities.
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Sherman's Union army has captured Savannah, Georgia. They now have created a military barrier that stretches from east to west across the South.
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President Lincoln visits Richmond, walking to the Confederate White House among cheering crowds, mostly freed slaves.
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Lee Surrenders his confederate army to gen. Grant at appomattox court house in virginia.
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April 14th 1865 president Aberham Lincoln was shot and killed at The Presidential Box at Ford's Theatre.
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The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted famous speeches in United States history. It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg.
