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Fort Sumter
The soldiers were led by Robert Anderson his army and him took control of the Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and the people in Charleston were furious they wanted to remove them -
Battle of Antietam
Sept 17 1862 known as the bloodiest day in the U.S Robert Lee and the confederate army are paused at by McClellen at night nearly 26,000 men died and wounded badly Lee was forced to surrender so the other side won -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Days after the battle of Antietam Abraham made the Emancipation Proclamation it was documented January 1, 1863 all enslaved people didn't apply to slave states anymore -
Battle of Gettysburg
In spring of 1863 Robert Lee's army defeated the Union in July 1, 1863 Robert's army met Union troops in the fight they didn't expect them to be there for three solid days neither side had won anyways -
Battle of Vicksburg
The last stronghold on the Mississippi River Vicksburg surrender to Grant and his army now in control of Mississippi -
Appomattox Courthouse
Grant was closing on Lee at Petersburg Confederate soldiers defending the city were starving in April Lee took his army hoping to find some type of food and confederate troops