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Tensions between the North and South. Indiana found itself in the middle of the states. So Hoosiers were divided over the issue of slavery.
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Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th U. S. President.
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South Carolina was the first state to secede from the United States.
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Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas had aslo seceded to make the Confeterates. Mississippi's Jefferson Davis became the first and only President of the Confederacy.
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Abraham Lincoln said, "It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty for yourselves, and not for me... [B]ear in mind that with you... is the question: Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this country be preserved...?" to Indiana.
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Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as U. S. President.
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The Civil War began when the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, a Union fort in South Carolina.
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North Carolina, Arkansas, Virgina, and Tennessee joined the Confederacy.
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Hoosier soldiers first saw action at Phillippi, Virgina.
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Many soldiers died trying to capture Fort Donelson.
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President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that stated that as of Jan. 1 1863 it would free slaves in the rebelling Confederate areas.
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John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate general stole Hoosier supplies and burnt bown biuldings.
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The Confederate army was hopelessly outnumbered and were forced to surrender.
