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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln is elected as the sixteenth president of the United States -
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina Succeeds the Union -
On February 22, 1861, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America. -
April 12, 1861, Southern forces fire upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The Civil War has formally begun. -
July 21, 1861, The First Battle of Bull Run (or First Manassas), -
September 17, 1862, The Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg), Maryland, the bloodiest single day of the Civil War -
January 1, 1863, The Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect -
May and June of 1863 The Battle of Vicksburg / Siege of Vicksburg -
July 1-3, 1863 The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War dashes Robert E. Lee's hopes for a successful invasion of the North. -
August – September 1864, Fall of Atlanta. General Sherman has Atlanta under siege -
General Sherman's Army begins the "March to the Sea". -
April 9, 1865, Battle of Appomattox Court House and Surrender, Appomattox Court House, Virginia. -
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated. -
On June 2, 1865, The Civil War officially ends.