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Confederate states of America forms, the South's "new country"
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Confederates started this war, but the Union ended it with a win.
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A battle that lasted two days near the original Battle of Bull Run, the Confederacy won.
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Bloodiest day of battle in the Civil War, McClellan tries getting past Lee.
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President Lincoln announced that he was freeing all enslaved people that resided in states still in rebellion.
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Lincoln gave Ulysses S. Grant full command of all Union armies. Grant ensured he would end the war within a year.
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Sherman burns Atlanta down to the ground.
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Attempted to make the South surrender by showing them things that would make them want to back out of the war as a whole.
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President Lincoln commemorated Battle of Gettysburg in a speech to the public.
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The thirteenth amendment is added to the constitution which abolished slavery.
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Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant near the Appomattox Courthouse
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The Freedman's Bureau was passed by congress.
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Congress passes a bill admitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union.
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Ulysses S Grant becomes the 18th president of the United States after Andrew Johnson.
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Andrew Johnson was elected into office, becoming the 17th president after Abe Lincoln.
