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Lincoln speaks at the Cooper Institute about his campaign to end slavery as the sixteenth president of the United States.
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Northern Abolitionist Abraham Lincoln is successful in the 1860 Presidential Election against Stephen Douglass.
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Georgia calls all southern states together to try and form a separate nation from the Union.
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Edwin Stanton officially becomes Attorney General allong side Lincoln in the cabinet.
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Southern Slave state South Carolina is the first state to secede from the Union.
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Mississippi- January 9, 1861
Florida- January 10, 1861
Alabama- January 11, 1861
Georgia- January 19, 1861
Louisiana- January 26, 1861
Texas- February 1, 1861
Virginia- April 17, 1861
Arkansas- May 6, 1861
North Carolina- May 20, 1861
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Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the first and only president of the Confedrate States of America.
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Confederate soldiers suprise attack at Fort Sumter giving an unofficial start to the Civil War. It ended on April 13, 1861 in a Confederate victory.
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This was the first land engagement between the Union and the Confederate forces of the Civil War.
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This very bloody and impressive battle gave the Confederacy a morale boost as the first official battle of the Civil War.
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This battle happened between the naval fleets of both armies, the Moniter (Union) and the Merrimack (Confederacy).
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The Union army, lead by Ulysses S. Grant captured two Confederate forts in Tennessee. Both sides suffered terrible loses at this Union victory.
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Jefferson Davis replaceswounded Army of Northern Virginia commander Joseph E. Johnston with Robert E. Lee.
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This was single, bloodiest battle of the whole entire Civil War ending in a Union victory.
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This surprise attack battle in Fredricksburg, Virginia ended in a Confederate victory.
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Lincoln adds the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution freeing all slaves in Northern and Southern territories.
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Union defeated Robert E. Lee lead by General Joe Hooker on their way to Richmond. Stonewall Jackson is killed during this battle.
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Known as the turning point of the Civil War, this was the bloodiest three days in American history. Robert E. Lee was defeated by George Meede.
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General Braxton Bragg tries to split General William Rosecrans of Union forces as they try to return to safety. There were many losses at this battle.
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Lincoln addresses the battlefield where the Battle of Gettysburg occurred and dedicates the area as a National Graveyard.
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President Lincoln appoints Ulysses S. Grant the commander of United States armies. William Sherman replaces Grant as the Commander of the west.
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This is the beginning a massive coordinated plan involving all Union armies. In VA, Grant with an army of 120,000 begins advancing toward Richmond to engage Lee army of Northern VA of 64,000, beginning a war of attrition which will include battles of Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor.
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The Union mises their opportunity to capture Petersburg and instead, a nine-month siege starts with Grant's forces surrounding Lee.
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William T. Sherman's army captures Atlanta and starts it march up the southern-eastern sea board destrying everything in its path.
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Lincoln is re-electedin the 1864 election against his ex-commander of his army, George McClellan, whom he fired for having the "slows."
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Congress approves the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery and sends it to the states to be ratified.
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Lincoln meets with Confederate vice-president Alexander Stephens and tries to peacefully end the war but it does not end well and the war continues.
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General John B. Gordon, a Confederate General, captured Fort Stedman, a Union outpost on the line around besieged Petersburg.
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Arbraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth, a southern sympathizer, in the back of the head. He dies the next morning.
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Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant's army at the Appomattox Court House.
