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Jefferson Davis comes out in favor of secession for the first time
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After Abraham Lincon was elected president 11 southern states secede from the union.
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Shots fire on fort sumpter. Battle of Gettysburg. Battle of vicksburg. Lee surenders to grant.
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Virginia secedes from the Union, followed within 5 weeks by Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, thus forming an eleven state Confederacy.
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The Constitution Union Party, meeting in Baltimore, creates a platform taken from the U. S. Constitution and selects John Bell of Tennessee for President and Edward Everett of Massachusetts for Vice-President.
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Lincoln, in a speech to Congress, states the war is..."a People's contest... a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men..." The
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At one point in the battlethe southerns General Thomas J Jackson, He won the nickname Stonewall Jackson because his men held the fast against the union of assult.
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President Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as Commander of the Department of the Potomac, replacing McDowell.
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After Grant's victory the confederate commander on the west front ordered a retreat to mississippi & asked for more troops from Nashville. Tennessee turned into rthe fight that led to The Civil War.
