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April 26, 1852: South Carolina seceded from the Union
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1861-1/2 of 1862: Mississippi Campagin
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July 18-21, 1861: First Battle of Bull Run
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July 25, 1861: the War resolution by the Congress
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November 8, 1861: Trent affair
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January-September 1862: Kentucky-Tennessee Campaign
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February 1862: siege of Fort Henry and Donelson
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March-June 1862: the Valley Campaign
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March 8, 1862: the *Monitor* and the *Merrimack*
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March-July 1862: Peninsular Campaign
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April-July 1, 1862: McClellan’s seize for Richmond
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April 6-7, 1862: Battle of Shiloh
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April 24-25, 1862: Battle of New Orleans
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Mid 1862: Lincoln’s order to free the pro-Confederacy leaders
Lincoln unconstitutionally imprisoned the pro-Confederacy leaders in Union and freed them in the middle of 1862. -
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February 6-12 1862: seize of Fort Henry and Donelson
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August 1862: Second Battle of Bull Run
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Fall and Winter of 1862-63: Revivals in Lee’s Confederate army
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September 13-17, 1862: Battle of Antietam
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Winter of 1862-4 July, 1863: Fall of Vicksburg
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December 13, 1862: Battle of Fredericksburg
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December 31, 1862- January 2, 1863: Battle of Stones River
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January 1, 1863: Emancipation Proclamation
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March 1863: Congress giving power to Lincoln
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April 1863: a riot for food in Richmond, Virginia
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May 1863: Battle of Chancellorsville (May 2, Jackson accidentally shot)
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June 20, 1863: official establishment of West Virginia
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July 1863: Battle of Gettysburg (July 3, Pickett's charge)
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July 13–16, 1863: New York draft Riot
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September 19-20, 1863: Battle of Chickamauga
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November 19, 1863: Gettysburg Address
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November 24-25, 1863: Fight for Chattanooga
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May 5-23, 1864: the Wilderness Campagin
Battles of the Wilderness (May 5-6, 1864), Spotsylvania Court House (May 8-12), and the North Anna River (May 16-23) -
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May 7 - September 2, 1864: Atlanta Campaign
Battle of Atlanta (July 20-22, 1864). Hood abandoned Atlanta on September 2. -
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June 1-3, 1864, Battle of Cold Harbor
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July 1864 - March 1865: Siege of Petersburg
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November 8, 1864: 1864 "US" presidential election
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November 15 - December 25, 1864: Sherman's March to the Sea
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March 4, 1865: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
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April 9, 1865: Appomattox
Within days, Joseph Johnston surrendered his forces to William Sherman near Durham.
The remaining Confederate forces surrendered in May.