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On April 1861, the Civil War began at Fort Sumter. The Fort belonged to the North (the Union), but it was in South Carolina. The confederate president Jefferson Davis Told the Union forces leave, but President Abraham Lincoln refused, the Confederate Army fired on Fort Sumter.
More Southern states joined the Confederacy, 11 states left the Union.

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On September 17, 1862, more than 23,000 soldiers died and were injured at the Battle of Antietam. It was the bloodiest day of fighting in the Civil War.

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On July 1863, more than 50,000 soldiers were killed in the Battle of Gettysburg. The Union won two important battles. At the battle of Vicksburg in Mississippi, General Ulysses S. got control of the Mississippi River and his victory cut the Confederacy in half. After those wars, The Union Army began to win.

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On 1863 President Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. In this document he said that "Persons held as slaves shall be forever free." He didn't free all the slaves but it was an important step.

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During 1864-1865 the Confederate Army lost its strongholds.

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On April 2, 1865, the Southern troops run fled their capital of Richmond, General Lee knew that the time come to surrender.

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 The surrender of the South to the North at Appomattox Courthouse.

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 The surrender of the South to the North at Appomattox Courthouse.

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On April 9, 1865, General Lee surrendered to General Grant at a small town in Virginia. The bloodiest war in America history was over.