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South Carolina votes to secede from the United States
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Lincolns first inaugural address
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Confederates force fire on For Sumter
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Richmond becomes the capital of the Confederacy
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy.
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The Merrimac and the Monitor fight of the Virginia coast Confederates surrender at Vicksburg
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Battle of Shiloh
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Robert E. Lee is is named commander of the army of Northern Virginia
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Battle of Antietam
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Battle of Fredricksburg
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Emancipation proclamation was announced
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Battle of Chancellorsville
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Battle of Gettysburg
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New York City draft riots
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Lincoln suspends habeas corpus
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Lincolns Gettysburg address
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Atlanta is captured
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Abraham Lincoln defeats George McClellan to win re-election
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Sherman begins his March to the Sea
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Congress passes the 13th Amendment
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Freedmen's Bureau is created
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Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
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Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox
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President lincoln assasinated
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John Wilkes Booth is Killed