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The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States -
The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election -
Charleston Mercury on November 3, 1860. South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union on December 20, 1860. -
On November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis, who had been elected president of the Provisional Government of the Confederacy on February 9, 1861—as a compromise between moderates and radicals—was confirmed by the voters for a full six-year term. -
When President Abraham Lincoln announced plans to resupply the fort, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter. -
Although Maryland did not secede, Southern sympathies were widespread. -
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First Manassas, was the first major battle of the American Civil War. -
Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, also called Battle of Hampton Roads, (March 9, 1862), in the American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia. -
The Battle of Shiloh was an early battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War -
The Battle of Shiloh was an early battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War -
Originally called the Confederate Army of the Potomac, the confederate forces were renamed the Army of Northern Virginia when Robert E. Lee assumed command -
known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War -
December 11, 1862 – December 15, 1862 -
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancellorsville campaign. -
July 1, 1863 – July 3, 1863 -
Surrender (July 4) On the hot afternoon of July 3, 1863, a cavalcade of horsemen in gray rode out from the city along the Jackson Road. -
The New York City draft riots sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week. -
Lincoln delivered one of the most famous speeches in United States history at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery -
Union General William T. Sherman orders the business district of Atlanta, Georgia, destroyed before he embarks on his famous March to the Sea. -
The 1864 United States presidential election, the 20th quadrennial presidential election -
Sherman's March to the Sea begins as his troops leave Atlanta -
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. -
Only 41 days before his assassination, President Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for the second time. Lincoln's second inaugural address previewed his plans for healing a once-divided nation. -
On the morning of Sunday, April 2, 1865, Confederate lines near Petersburg broke after a nine-month siege. -
Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans. -
Jefferson Davis and his government traveled to Danville as Richmond fell to the Federal army. The city was the seat of the Confederate government for only eight days. -
the end of the Civil War for General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. -
John Wilkes Booth kills Lincoln in Peterson house theatre -
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C
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