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| 1862: Sept. 17 - Battle of Antietam Creek | Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation |
| 1861: April 12 - Confederates fire on Fort Sumter | The Civil War begins |
| 1862: April 24 - Battle of New Orleans Admiral David Farragut sails past forts at mouth of Mississippi River | Lower Mississippi falls into Union hands, |
| 1862: Feb. 6 &16 - Battles of Fort Henry and Donelson in Tennessee, 1332 casualties | The first major victory for the North |
| 1863: July 1-3 - The Battle of Gettysburg, 51,000 casualties | Union victory turns back Lee's invasion of the North |
| 1864: Dec. 21 - Sherman captures Savannah, GA | Completion of Sherman's March to the Sea |
| 1864: Jan 1- Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's commitment that a northern victory will end slavery |
| 1864: July 18-Sept. 3 Battle of Atlanta | Sherman burns Atlanta |
| 1863: July 4 - The Battle (Siege) of Vicksburg in Mississippi | Grant cuts the Confederacy in half |
| 1862: March 9 - Battle of Ironclads | First iron-hulled ships |
| 1861: July 21 - Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) | ...highlighted by Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's heroic stand |
| 1864: Nov. 8 - Lincoln is re-elected to a second term | Lincoln's surprise victory |
| 1865: April 14 - | Abraham Lincoln is assassinated |
| 1863: Nov 19 - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address dedicates | Lincoln's ten sentences lay out his vision of "a new birth of freedom" |
| Battle of Shiloh | The North Won |
| 1862: June 25 - The Seven Days | Outnumbered, Lee mounts a brilliant offensive attack and force McClellan to retreat to Washington D.C. |
| 1862: Aug. 29-30 - The Battle of Second Manassas (Second Bull Run) | Stunning victory by Lee and Stonewall Jackson drives Union invaders out of Virginia |
| 1865: April 3-4 - Davis flees Richmond | The fall of the Confederate capital signals to the nations that the war is really over |
| 1865: April 9 | Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse, VA |
