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1861 Border states remain in the Union: major strategic victory for the Union
Union blockade proclaimed: Lincoln and Scott plan the Anaconda Strategy
Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus in selected areas: war infringes on civil liberties
Battle of Bull Run: illusion of short war destroyed
Crittenden Resolution: Congress declares that the war is being fought solely to preserve the Union
First Confiscation Act: first move by Union against slavery, freeing slaves used for military purposes
1862 Forts Henry and Donelson captured: first union victories force Confederates from Kentucky and middle Tennessee
Monitor vs. Virginia (Merrimack): first naval engagement between iron clad ships results in a standoff
Battle of Shiloh: Grant's drive South checked with heavy losses indicating for the first time the magnitude of this conflict
Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia: Congress intensifies drive against slavery
Confederacy adopts conscription: growing complaints against interference with individual liberty
New Orleans captured: North begins to divide the South into two
Homestead Act: intended to promote rapid settlement of the West
Land Grant College Act: sale of specified public lands to be used to promote higher education
Second Confiscation Act: slaves of rebel masters declared free if in Union custody
Union income tax enacted
McClellan's Peninsula campaign fails: hopes for decisive victory in east dashed
Second Battle of Bull Run: Lee crushes Pope, Lincoln continues to search for a general to lead the Army of the Potomac
Battle of Antietam: Lee's invasion of Maryland turned back
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued: Lincoln declares slaves in the Confederacy free
Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus throughout Union: more sweeping interference with civil liberties
Battle of Fredricksburg
1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued: Emancipation Proclamation becomes effective January 1
National Banking Act: Congress brings currency, most banks under a central national system
Union institutes conscription: resentment in the Union because of special privileges
Confederacy enacts general tax laws, initiates impressment: produces great popular resentment
Bread riots in the Confederacy: high prices and inflation lead to disorder
Battle of Chancellorsville
West Virginia admitted to the Union: new border state created
Battle of Gettsyburg: Lee's invasion of the North repulsed, destroying his army's offensive capability
Vicksburg captured: Union in control of the Mississippi River, dividing the Confederacy
New York City draft riots: resentment against draft sparks a bloody anti-black, anti-Republican riot
1864 Grant becomes Union general in chief: Union war effort given a new aggressiveness
Wilderness Campaign: Grant hammers at Lee's lines with horrendous losses
Siege of Petersburg: Grant seeks to stretch and break Lee’s lines
Battle of Mobile Bay: Farragut wins dramatic victory and buoys Lincoln’s prospects for re-election
Fall of Atlanta: Sherman's victory gives Lincoln a needed boost
Lincoln reelected: makes reunion and emancipation certain
Sherman's march to the sea: stunning demonstration of psychological warfare against civilians
1865 Congress passes Thirteenth Amendment: intended to make emancipation secure
Sherman’s march through the Carolinas: Union troops carry psychological warfare into the "seedbed" of the rebellion
Lee surrenders: Confederate resistance quickly collapses
Lincoln assassinated: the president is one of the war's casualties
Thirteenth Amendment ratified: slavery abolished in the United States
1866 Ex Parte Milligan: military trials of civilians struck down after the war
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