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Fort Sumter
Southerners start war after A. Lincoln decided to cut fort off -
Battle of Bull Run
first major battle at Creek of Bull Run nearby Washington D.C.: General Thomas J. Jackson stands like a "Stonewall" -> victory for Confederate Army -
Battle of Shiloh
Confederates attack Union army occupying ground near Pittsburg Landing at Tennessee River -
Battle of Antietam
Maryland- Lee vs. McClellan; Lee invades North but Union finds CSA orders wrapped around cigar -> victory for Union Army -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln authorizes army to emancipate slaves into Union army, however it did not free slaves immediately because it only applied Northern states -
Battle of Gettysburg
"The Turning Point" (3-day battle); stops Lee's second invasion of the North -> victory for Union army but 50,000 men fell -
Total War
Lincoln appoints Ulysses S. Grant commander of all Union armies and he appoints William Tecumseh Sherman as commander of the military -
Sherman's March to the Sea
captures and burn Atlanta then turned North to help Grant to "wipe out Lee" (Total War) -
13th Amendment
U.S. Congress approves to U.S. Constitution, to abolish slavery all over the states -
Appomattox Court House (Virginia)
Lee surrenders his Confederate to General Grant -
Lincoln's Assassination
He and his wife were watching the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre while John Wilkes Booth shoots him in his head.
