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Lincoln is elected President with a 40% popular vote.
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South Carolina succeeds form the Union and is soon followed by Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Lousiana, and Texas.
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The Confederate States of America is created and Jefferson Davis is the President.
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Fort Sumter is attacked in Charleston, SC and the Civil War begins.
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Robert E. Lee was offered command of the Union army but he declined.
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Lincoln makes a speech about and Congress makes the call for 500,000 men to be enlisted into the army.
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Lincoln orders that both land and naval forces are to start adancing by February 22nd, George Washington's Birthday.
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Ulysess S. Grant captures both Fort Henry and Fort Donelson.
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General Ulysses S. Grant's troops are attacked and thousands are killed or wounded.
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General Robert E. Lee takes command of the Confederate Army and it is thought that he will be less that adequate.
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General Stonewall Jackson defeats the Confederate Army and the Union army returns to Washington.
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Was the Bloodiest day in US miliraty history when General Lee and the confederate armiers were stoped at Antietam. There were 26'00 dead. Lee withdrws to Virgina.
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The Union armies try to take on the Condrederate armies. . .12'653 Unions dead and only 5'309 Confederates dead.
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President Lincoln issues the E.P. to free all slaves.
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Stonewall Jackson dies.
"I have lost my right arm," Lee laments at the death of Jackson. -
The Confederates are defeted at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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The last Confederate stronghold surrenders to General Grant after a six week siege.
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President Lincolin delivers the Gettysburg address and makes the battlefeild a national cemetary.
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Grant is appionted the general over ALL of the armies in the United States.
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General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Grant.
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Abraham Lincoln is re-elected as president of the United States.
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Sherman reaches Savannah, GA, leaving a 300 mile long, 60 miles wide path of destruction from Atlanta, GA.
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Congress passes the 13th amendment with abolishes slavery.
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President Lincoln tour Richmond and visits the Confederate White House, Lincoln sits behind the desk of Jefferson Davis for a few moments.
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This is the final portrait of President Abraham Lincoln, weary from war.
