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South Carolina became the first State to secede from the U.S. -
Abraham Lincoln made his first Inaugural address to the nation -
When Confederate troops marched into the fort on the afternoon of April 14, 1861, over 3,300 shells had been fired at the fort during the initial 34-hour bombardment by 43 Confederate guns. -
On April 27, 1861, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels -
However, on May 8, 1861, in the Confederate Capital City of Montgomery, Alabama, the decision was made to name the City of Richmond, Virginia as the new Capital of the Confederacy -
First Battle of Bull Run, also called First Battle of Manassas , Battle of First Manassas, or Manassas Junction, (July 21, 1861) -
Jefferson Davis was elected as the first and only President of the Confederacy -
On March 9, 1862, the Monitor and the Merrimack fought their historic duel off Hampton Roads, Va., the first battle between ironclads. -
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior -
Originally called the Confederate Army of the Potomac, the confederate forces were renamed the Army of Northern Virginia when Robert E. Lee assumed command on June 1, 1862 -
A battle where 23,000 total soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing in combat and halted the Confederates first invasion of Northern Virginia -
This was a long battle that the Confederates won in the end while suffering 6,000 losses and the Union suffered about 12,500 losses
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The Emancipation Proclamation is a document created by Abraham Lincoln that declared all slaves that were in rebellious states, free slaves -
Despite the heavy casualties sustained there, the Battle of Chancellorsville is considered Gen. Robert E. Lee's greatest military victory
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The historic Battle of Gettysburg takes place and lasts 3 days, and is known as one of the bloodiest battles in American history
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On the hot afternoon of July 3, 1863, a cavalcade of horsemen in gray rode out from the city along the Jackson Road -
Draft Riot of 1863, major four-day eruption of violence in New York City resulting from deep worker discontent with the inequities of conscription during the U.S. Civil War
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Lincoln delivered one of the most famous speeches in United States history at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on November 19, 1863 -
On August 28, 1864, Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman lays siege to Atlanta -
The 1864 United States presidential election, the 20th quadrennial presidential election, was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1864. -
Union General Sherman's scorched-earth March to the Sea campaign begins -
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States -
On March 3, 1865, Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans -
In his Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865, a re-elected President Abraham Lincoln wanted to unify a broken nation -
On the morning of Sunday April 2, 1865 Confederate lines near Petersburg broke after a nine month seige. The retreat of the army left the Confederate capital of Richmond, 25 miles to the north, defenseless -
After the fall of Richmond, the Confederate capital, on April 2, 1865, officials in the Confederate government, including President Jefferson Davis, fled. The dominoes began to fall. The surrender at Appomattox took place a week later on April 9 -
President Lincoln was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth and killed after the war was ended
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On April 26, 1865 the man who Killed Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, is killed