| November 6 |
- Lincoln elected President
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| March 4 |
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| April 12 |
- Firing on Fort Sumter, S.C., initiated the Civil War
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| July 21 |
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| June-September |
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| July 13 |
- Lincoln read initial draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to Secretaries Seward and Welles
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| July 22 |
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| September |
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| September 22 |
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| January 1 |
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| April-May |
- Chancellorsville Campaign
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| June-July |
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| November 19 |
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| April 4 |
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| May-December |
- The March Toward Richmond
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| May 5-7 |
- Grant's Wilderness Campaign
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| May 7-20 |
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| June '64-May '65 |
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| September 1 |
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| November 8 |
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| April 9 |
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