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Immediately after Abraham Lincoln is elected President, South Carolina calls a state convention to remove itself from the United States of America. South Carolina is quickly followed by Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. Later, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina also secedes, forming the Confederate States of America.
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The bombardment/siege and ultimate surrender of Fort Sumter by Brig. General P.G.T. Beauregard was the official start of the Civil War.
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Also known as First Manassas, the first major engagement of the civil war.
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this battle lasted almost a full month
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lasted from Aug. 28-30
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one of the bloodiest battles in the civil war
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Account of the bloody confederate slaughter in Franklin, Tennessee.
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April 30- May 6
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July 1- July 3. Grant gets a victory on lee. putting them further behind
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Nathan Bedford Forrest led a massacre in Tennessee
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The Confederates, along with cadets from VMI, drove Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
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Union Major General Philip H. Sheridan attacked the seemingly impregnable heights of Fisher’s Hill, grandly known as the ‘Gibraltar of the Shenandoah Valley.’
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The battle of Nashville was the last major battle in the Western Theater and a major victory for the Union.
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia