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A TIMELINE OF EVENTS: THE CIVIL WAR<br />
1861<br />
January<br />
<strong>The</strong> South secedes from the Union.<br />
March<br />
Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated.<br />
April<br />
<strong>The</strong> attack on Fort Sumter marks the start<br />
of the Civil War.<br />
July<br />
<strong>The</strong> first Battle of Bull Run.<br />
1862<br />
January<br />
<strong>The</strong> Whipping Man<br />
President Lincoln declares war on the<br />
Confederacy.<br />
May<br />
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson defeats<br />
Union forces at Shenandoah.<br />
September<br />
Confederacy yields to Union forces at<br />
Antietam, the bloodiest battle of the war.<br />
Left: Confederate flag flying over Fort Sumter. Image is a detail from a stereoscopic photograph taken by Alma A.<br />
Pelot on the morning of April 15, 1861. Right: Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson (1824 – 1863).<br />
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