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Abraham Lincoln was elcected in 1860 as the 16th president of the United States. He was the first Republican president so far. The other candidates he ran up against were, John Bell, Stephen Douglas, and John C. Breckinridge.
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South Carolina was the first state to seccede from the union in 1860.
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Missippi was the second state to seceede from the Union
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Flordia was the third state out of 11 states to seceed from the Union.
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Alabama was the 4th state to seceed following Florida.
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Georigia seceeded from the Union on January 19th, 1861.
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Louisiana was the 6th to seceed from the Union in 1861.
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Texas was the 7th state to seceed, and was the furthest state in the west to seceed.
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General Beauregard, who was the commander at the time of the provisional Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina, demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in the Charleston Harbor. The confederates had the victory of that battle.
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After the defeat at Fort Sumter Lincoln realized he needed backup so he ordered for 75,000 volunteers. This is how Tennessee got its nickname " The Volunteer State" because they gave a massive amount of volunteers. :)
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Virginia seceeded from the union April 17th. 1861.
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Arkansas seceeded from the union 150 years ago today!!!!!! (today is May 6th)
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North Carolina secceded from the Union on May 20th 1861.
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Tennessee was the VERY LAST state to seceed from the union, we secceeded a few months after every other southern state!
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This was the first major battle and start of the many battles to come. After this battle this battle both sides realized it was going to be a very long battle
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On November 1rst, 1861 he became the supreme commander over all union armies. He took General Winfeild Scott's place after he retired.
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This battle was fought on a river in Tennessee.This battle lead up to the battle of Fort Donelson.
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This battle was fought in Tennessee, and followed the battle of Fort Henry.
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General Lee took the initiative and acted at once. Cutting off supplies and reinforcements executed by Jackson at Seven Pines was a successful Confederate venture.
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the Confederate ironclad Virginia steamed into Hampton Roads where she sank Cumberland and ran Congress aground. Fortunately for the Union, on March 9, the ironclad Monitor arrived to do battle, initiated the first engagement of ironclads in history. The two ships fought each other to a standstill, but Virginia retired.
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After the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson the generals were forced to fall back, wich caused us to give up Kentucky, much of the west, and parts of Tennessee
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Pope was promoted major general in 1862.After securing the Mississippi River for the Union almost as far south as Memphis, Pope attracted the admiration of President Abraham Lincoln.
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In order to draw Pope’s army into battle, Jackson ordered an attack on a Federal column that was passing across his front on the Warrenton Turnpike on August 28.
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On September 16, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan confronted Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Sharpsburg, Maryland.
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Burnside had been asked to be the commander of the AOP but he declined.
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Lee reacted by entrenching his army on the heights behind the town. On December 11, Union engineers laid five pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock under fire.
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On April 27, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker led the V, XI, and XII Corps on a campaign to turn the Confederate left flank by crossing the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers above Fredericksburg. Passing the Rapidan via Germanna and Ely’s Fords, the Federals concentrated near Chancellorsville on April 30 and May 1.
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In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee concentrated his full strength against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac at the crossroads county seat of Gettysburg.
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Union forces surrounded and kept an eye on Petersburg for 9 months. Union forces were well supplied. Confederate forces could barely find food to eat and they didnt have shoes.
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Following the Battle of Peachtree Creek, Hood determined to attack Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson’s Army of the Tennessee. He withdrew his main army at night from Atlanta’ s outer line to the inner line, enticing Sherman to follow.
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In a last attempt to force Gen. William T. Sherman’s army out of Georgia, Gen. John Bell Hood led the Army of Tennessee north toward Nashville in November 1864.
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13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery.
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He surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, after Union forces prevented the escape of some 27,000 Confederate soldiers.
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Licoln was shot in the back of the head by John Booth while seeing a play at a theater with his wife. :(
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Following its strategic defeat at Bentonville, N.C., March 21, 1865, the Confederate army of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was reduced to perhaps 30,000 effectives, less than half the size of Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Federal command. So, since he lost more than half of his army to that battle he surrendered.
