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On July 1861, the Confederacy and the Union had their first major battle. Also the Cenfederates won the balttle by General Thomas J. Jackson rallying them and they them had reinforcments.
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On Feb. 1862 Grant led a army into Tennessee in hope to capture Fort Henry and Donelson. Also on Feb. 6 Grant captured Fort Henry and then 10 dats later he catpured Fort Donelson.
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On April 6, 1862 the Battle of Shiloh was started by the Confederates who caught General Grant by suprise. Union reienforcements arrived at the night of the battle.
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Lincoln sent forces back to Virginia to catpure Richmond under the command of General George B. McClellan in the spring of 1862.
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The Union controlled the key stretches of Tennessee and Cumberland by the spring of 1862. Thye also controlled some rivers and Southern railroads.
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Lee's army was crossing into Maryland on Sept. 4 1862 but they were starving and exhausted.
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On Sept. 17, 1862 the Battle of Antietam begun. At rhe end of the war 13,700 Confederate soilders died and 12,500 Union soilders died.
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General Grant went to a different way to take Vicksburg in 1863. He went from the Mississippi River and moved into Jackson, Mississippi.
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On July 1, 1863 was the first day of the Battle of the Gettysburg. The Confederates forced the Union back to Cemetery Ridge.
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In 1864 Grant marched into eastern Virginia where Lee and him fought a set of battles. They fought at Wilderness, Spotsylvvania, and Cold Harbor.
