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President Lincoln is elected as the 16th president of the United States.
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A merchant vessel named "Star of the West" was carrying federal troops and their supplies to Fort Sumter, they were not as secret as they thought and were fired on by South Carolina's artillery in Charleston Harbor.
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South Carolina was voted to be removed from the union of the U.S.A. This resulted in six more states also being removed-Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. This is as a result of Lincoln being elected President.
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Representatives from the six seceded states had a meeting to form a government and elect a president of their own.
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Lincoln orders blackade of Confederate ports
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Lincoln inaugurated March 4th, said he had no plans on changing the states that already had slavery, and hoped to solve the problems without violence
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Battle of Fort Sumter: Fort Sumter was attacked by South Carolina troops-Fort Sumter surrenders- 2 accidental Union deaths
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Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina secede from the Union
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Colonel Elmer Ellsworth is killed-first officer to die in the war. Becomes the martyr for the North.
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First Battle of Manassas(First Battle of Bull Run) is won by Confederate Forces-460 Union casualties, 1,124 wounded
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General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Henry.
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General Ulysses S. Grant prevails Battle of Shiloh-he may have won but there were huge losses involved, Union lost 1,754 people/8,408 wounded, South lost 1,782/wounded 8,012
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New Orleans captured
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South has victory at Second Battle of Manassas, approximately 10,000 Union people were killed and wounded
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Both sides loose at The Battle of Antietan, Maryland
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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation: did not technically free enslaved people, but expanded the Union's war aim to include slavery abolition.
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Union Victory at Chattanooga
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Battle of Fredricksburg-Union wins, but loses 1,284 people and wounded 9,600
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Emancipation Proclamation: declares that all slaves are free.
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Civil War Military Draft Act is signed. This provides new manpower for the Union Army. Required ever male citizen between twenty and forty-five to enroll in the military.
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Battle of Chancellorsville is won by Confederates. 1,606 union men were killed, 9,672 wounded, 5,919 went missing(captured).
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Battle of Gettysburg: Union victory! Combined total of 23,055 casualties and losses on the Union side, 23,231 on the South side.
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Violent riots in the streets of New York City as a result of the draft act.
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Gettysburg Address: all mean are created equal
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Ulysses S. Grant is given authority over all Union armies.
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Battle of Cold Harbor: large amount of Union casualties. 7,000 in twenty minutes.
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Union victory in the Shenandoah Valley
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Battle of Nashivlle is won by General George Henry Thomas
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President Lincoln assassinatied: John Wilkes Booth shot the president at Ford's Theater& the Secretary of State was stabbed in his home in Washinton.
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Confederate resistance ends: terms of surrender offered to General Smith on May 26th, pending his acceptance, the confederates end their resistance against the state
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Thirteenth Amendment: abolishes slavery throughout the United States
