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Evansville becomes the states second largest city
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president
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South Carolina becomes the first state to secede
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January- February six other states secede: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisana, and Texas.
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Confederate State of America is made
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The first shot of the Civil War is fired.
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Hoosier soldiers first go to battle at Phillipi, Virginia
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Battle for Fort Donelson begins
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Second battle of Bull Run
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John Hunt Morgan raids southern Indiana
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The Civil War finally ends
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In the 1870s Indiana went through MANY changes