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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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