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Senator Abraham Lincoln wins the election of 1860 against 8 other candidates with many electoral votes.
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The American Civil War starts at Fort Sumter. The Confederates attacked the Union Fort which was in South Carolina and that was Confederate Territory. No one died at Fort Sumter, but a bloody war had started.
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The Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest battle in the Civil War, has started. Over 26,000 soldiers died, are wounded, or are missing in action in this one-day battle. The battle ends in a draw, but stops General Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland.
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General Ulysses S. Grant takes control of the whole Mississippi River after the long siege of Vicksburg. Now that the Union has taken control of the Mississippi River the Confederacy is cut in two.
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Union forces routed Confederate forces into Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. The victories for Union made Confederates go back to Georgia and it allowed General William Tecumseh Sherman to march to Savannah, Georgia.
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James is given a journal to keep a record of G company during the Civil War, after the first two were killed.
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President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address honoring the men who died at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, both the Confederates and the Union.
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James gets a letter from Johnny Henderson's sister. This is the first letter he has ever gotten in his life and during the war.
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James goes into battle with the other members of the G company to fight Confederates. James goes ahead to find no Confederates.
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Jame's company joins Maj. Pettit's artillery. This is a good thing because Maj. Pettit's is always in the fighting.
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James gets a promotion and gets promoted to a sergeant. Someone else was supposed to be a sergeant, but they were sick in the hospital.
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General Ulysses S. Grant is promoted to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, and is now in charge of all of the Union Armies.
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This was the first stage to capturing the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. Ordered by Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, the Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan River to fight the Northern Virginia Army.
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James gets hurt during the Battle of the Wilderness and wakes up to find none of his company near. He finds the forest in ruins and there are no signs of his company.
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In this battle, Confederates fought with advancing Union forces in the area of the Spotsylvania Courthouse. The Union won, but met Robert E. Lee's Northern Virginia Army and fought in the crossroads town of the Spotsylvania Courthouse.
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James gets food, a shelter, and help from a slave after he lost his company. She later helps them find other soldiers.
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While James was helping with the wounded, he heard Pete Mcquade, a soldier from his company, call to him. He is happy to find a soldier from his company.
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While watching a play at Ford's theater, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a southerner who hated Lincoln.
