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South Carolina Secession
The Confederacy began to form. Alabama governor Moore appointed Curry Commissioner to Maryland to consult with that state's government as to the best actions “to protect the rights, interests and honor of the Slaveholding States -
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battles and Events of Civil War
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Inaguration of Abraham Lincoln as United States President
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First Confederate Battle Death
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Battle of Bull Run
Description: General Irvin McDowell and more than 30,000 troops were sent to a creek near Manassas, Virginia by General Scott.People:General Irvin McDowell, General Thomas J. Jackson, General George B. McClellanOutcome: This battle outcome was a confederate victory -
Battle of Wilson's Creek. Location: Missouri
The Battle of Wilson's Creek, also known as the Battle of Oak Hills, was fought on August 10, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri, between Union forces and the Missouri State Guard, -
Capture of Forts Henry and Donelson
Took place in Tennesse. On February 6th 1862, Union soldiers under General Grant attacked Fort Henry on the Tennessee River. The Fort quickly surrendered after a bombardment from Union ships. Federal troops soon surrounded the fort and made the Confederate position unable and forcing their surrender. -
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Battle of Pea ridge
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Battle of Wilderness
The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Both armies suffered heavy casualties -
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Battle of Bentonville, N. C.
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Battle of Five Forks, Va.
The Battle of Five Forks was fought on April 1, 1865, southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, in Dinwiddie County, during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. -
Capture of Petersburg and Richmond, Va.
By the end of 1864 the Civil War was drawing to a close. The larger cities of the South such as Savannah, Charleston and Atlanta, were now taken over by General Sherman's troops in his fateful March to the Sea. -
Assassination of President Lincoln in Washington, D.C.
Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. As Lincoln slumped forward in his seat, Booth leapt onto the stage and escaped through the back door. A doctor in the audience rushed over to examine the paralyzed president. Lincoln was then carried across the street to Petersen's Boarding House, where he died early the next morning