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The American Civil War had begun.
The American Civil War had begun.
== Chronology of the Civil War ==
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== '''1861''' ==
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| March 4 || [[Abraham Lincoln]] is inaugurated as President
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| April 12 || Civil War begins when [[Confederacy|Confederates]] attack [[Fort Sumter]], [[South Carolina]]
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| July 21 || First Battle of [[Bull Run]], [[Virginia]], also called [[First Manassas]]
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== '''1862''' ==
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| February 16 || Battle at [[Fort Donelson]], [[Tennessee]]
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| March 9 || Naval battle between [[Union Monitor]] and [[Confederate]] [[Merrimac]] in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. Merrimac withdraws
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| April 6-7 || Battle of [[Shiloh]], [[Tennessee]]
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| April 25 || Union Admiral [[David G. Farragut]] captures [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]
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| May 31-June 1 || Battle of [[Fair Oaks]] (Seven Pines), [[Virginia]]
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| June 25-July 1 || [[Seven Day's Battles]], [[Maryland]] and [[Virginia]]
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| September 16-17 || Battle of [[Antietam]] ([[Sharpsburg]]), [[Maryland]]
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| September 23 || [[Abraham Lincoln|President Lincoln]] issues preliminary [[Emancipation Proclamation]] freeing slaves in [[South]] as of January 1, 1863
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| December 13 || Battle of [[Fredericksburg]], [[Virginia]]
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== '''1863''' ==
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| January 1 || [[President Lincoln]] issues [[Emancipation Proclamation]]
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| May 2-4 || Battle of [[Chancellorsville]], [[Virginia]]
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| July 1-3 || Battle of [[Gettysburg]], [[Pennsylvania]]; [[Union]] victory marks turning point in the war
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| July 4 || Union forces win siege of [[Vicksburg]], [[Mississippi]]
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| September 19-20 || Battle of [[Chickamauga]], [[Georgia]]
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| November 19 || [[Abraham Lincoln|President Lincoln]] delivers [[Gettysburg Address]] to dedicate battlefield.
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| November 23-25 || Battle of [[Chattanooga]], [[Tennessee]]
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== '''1864''' ==
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| March 9 || [[Ulysses S. Grant|Gen. Grant]] becomes General-in-Chief of Union armies
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| May 5-6 || Battle of the [[Wilderness]], [[Virginia]]
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| May 8-12 || Battle of [[Spotsylvania]], [[Virginia]], Court House
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| June 15-18 || Battle of [[Petersburg]], [[Virginia]]
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| July 11-12|| [[Confederacy|Confederate]] raid under [[Jubal Early|Gen. Jubal Early]] almost reaches [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]
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| July 30 || Battle of the Crater, [[Petersburg]], [[Virginia]]
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| August 5 || Naval battle of [[Mobile Bay]], [[Alabama]]
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| September 2 || [[William T. Sherman|Gen. William T. Sherman]] occupies [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]]
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| November 8 || [[Abraham Lincoln]] re-elected President
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| November 15 || [[William Tecumseh Sherman|Sherman]] begins his [[March to the Sea]]
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| December 15-16 || Battle of [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]
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| December 21 || [[William Tecumseh Sherman|Sherman]] occupies [[Savannah]], [[Georgia]]
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== '''1865''' ==
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| February 6 || [[Robert E. Lee|Gen. Robert E. Lee]] becomes General-in-Chief of [[Confederacy|Confederate]] armies
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| March 25 || [[Confederacy|Confederate]] attempts to break out of [[Petersburg]], [[Virginia]], fails
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| April 2 || [[Confederacy|Confederates]] retreat from [[Richmond]], [[Virginia]]
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| April 9 || [[Robert E. Lee|Gen. Lee]] surrenders to [[Ulysses S. Grant|Gen. Grant]] at [[Appomattox Court House]]
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| April 14 || President [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln]] assassinated
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| April 26 || Presidential assassin [[John Wilkes Booth]] shot and killed
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| May 4 || Last [[Confederacy|Confederate]] army surrenders
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