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Civil War Timeline
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The Pony Express was created. This mail service that shortened mail time significantly.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president for the first time.
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South Carolina becomes the first state to declare seccession from the U.S.
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Mississippi is the second state to declare secession.
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Florida is the third state to declare secession.
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Alabama is the third state to declare secession.
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Geoarga is the fifth state to declare secession.
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Louisiana is the sixth state to declare secession.
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Texas becomes the seventh state to declare seccesion.
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The Battle of Fort Sumter is what marks the beginning to the Civil War.
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Virginia becomes the eigth state to declare seccesion.
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Arkansas becomes the ninth state to declare secession.
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North Carolina becomes the tenth state to declare seccesion.
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Tennessee becomes the eleventh state to declare seccesion.
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The first major battle of the Civil War.
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The first working mchine gun was invented by Richard Gatling.
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The first steel warship was created replacing wooden warships.
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One of the key campaigns in the fight for the Mississippi River Valley.
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This acts was created to give a person who was to buy lane a low cost.
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Robert E. Lee gets control over the confederate army of Northern Virginia.
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The Second Battle of Bull Run is fought in which the confederates won.
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The bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War.
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On this date Lincoln sent out a warning that he would emancipate the slaves in any rebelling state on Janury 1, 1863.
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Abraham Lincoln enforces the Emancipation Proclamation on all rebel states.
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The first American draft for the army is in progress.
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A widely known confederate general was shot mistakenly by his own troops.
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The Battle of Gettysburg lasts 4 days and is one of the bloodiest battles. It also marks a turning point for the union.
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People erupt as the U.S. tris to draft men for the army. Riots break out in New York.
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Abraham Lincoln delivers his famous 2 minute speech.
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Andersonville, the worst prison of war criminals, is created.
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This group was filled with units to tend to the wounded.
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Ulysses S Grant becomes commander of all Union armies.
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Sherman burns Atlanta in its entirety.
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General William Sherman led his troops 285 miles from Atlanta to Georgia and on his way they stole livestock, crops, and burned houses to frightem the southerners.
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Abraham Lincoln puts into action the thirteenth ammendment which abolishes slavery in the U.S.
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Abraham Lincoln is put into offic for the second time.
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One of the last battles of the civil war. Final engagement between Lee's army and Grant's.
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The Civil War officially ends. It ends when Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Whilkes Booth.
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On this day slavery in the U.S. is abolished.