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Abraham Lincoln Is Elected President
Although the south didn't want Loincoln elected, he won 180 of the possible 303 electorals votes. The south was worried that beause Lincoln was aginst slavery he would favor the North.
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The South Secedes
As the southern states grew restless, the became more and more upset with the governemtn. Finally the states voted and several seceded. Some states that seceded were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
At 4:30 am, General Pierre Beauregard opens fire with 50 cannons. The fort is surrenedered and the civil war has begun. www.civilwar.com -
Attack At Shiloh
This was a Confederate surprise attack on General Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River. This results in a bitter struggle with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more men than in all previous American wars combined. The president is then pressured to believe Grant but refuses to fire him.
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Battle At Antietam
This is known as the bloodiest day in U.S. military history as General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces. By nightfall 26,000 men are dead, wounded, or missing. Lee then withdraws to Virginia.
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Emancipation Proclamtion
President Lincoln issued this proclamtion which declared that slaves were free. He knew that ablotionism was becoming more common and saw this as an opportunity to change our nation.
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Surrender At Appomattax Courthouse
As General Lee's troop were surrounded, General Grant asked Lee to surrender. In the afternoon on the 9th, they meet and agrred to the terms of surrender. The war was over. -
The Assasination Of President Lincoln
President Lincoln was watching a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland obsessed with avenging the Confederate defeat. Lincoln died the next morning. Booth escaped to Virginia. Eleven days later, cornered in a burning barn, Booth was fatally shot by a Union soldier. Nine other people were involved in the assassination; four were hanged, four imprisoned, and one acquitted.
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