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| 12/20/1860 - The South Secedes |
| 2/1/1861 - The South Seizes Federal Forts |
| 3/4/1861 - Lincoln's Inauguration |
| 3/11/1861 - The South Creates a Government |
| 4/12/1861 - Attack on Fort Sumter |
| 4/17/1861 - Four More States Join the Confederacy |
| 7/21/1861 - First Battle of Bull Run |
| 7/27/1861 - Northern Blockade of the South |
| 7/31/1861 - General McDowell Is Replaced |
| 1/27/1862 - Lincoln Issues War Order |
| 3/8/1862 - McClellan Loses Command |
| 3/8/1862 - Battle of Monitor and Merrimack |
| 3/23/1862 - Stonewall Jackson Defeats Union Forces |
| 3/27/1862 - The Peninsular Campaign |
| 4/6/1862 - The Battle of Shiloh |
| 5/31/1862 - The Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) |
| 6/26/1862 - The Seven Days' Battles |
| 7/1/1862 - Pope's Campaign |
| 7/11/1862 - Halleck Named Chief of Union Army |
| 9/17/1862 - Battle of Antietam |
| 12/11/1862 - Battle of Fredericksburg |
| 1/1/1863 - Emancipation Proclamation |
| 3/3/1863 - The First National Conscription Act |
| 4/30/1863 - The Battle of Chancellorsville |
| 5/1/1863 - The Vicksburg Campaign |
| 6/12/1863 - The Gettysburg Campaign |
| 9/19/1863 - The Battle of Chickamauga |
| 5/1/1864 - Grant's Wilderness Campaign |
| 6/13/1864 - Confederate Troops Approach Washington, D.C |
| 8/1/1864 - General William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign |
| 11/8/1864 - Abraham Lincoln Is Re-Elected |
| 11/15/1864 - General William T. Sherman's March to the Sea |
| 1/3/1865 - Sherman's March through Carolina |
| 1/24/1865 - The Fall of the Confederacy |
| 3/25/1865 - Fallen Richmond |
| 4/7/1865 - Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse |
| 4/14/1865 - The Assassination of President Lincoln |
| 4/26/1865 - Final Surrenders among Remaining Confederate Troops |