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| 1861 |
| | | Shots are fired against the Federal military garrison in Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbour, launching the American Civil War | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Mathew Brady sends teams ot photographers to the various battle fronts to ensure a thorough photographic record of the American Civil War | |
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| 1861 |
| | | The first battle of the American Civil War, fought near Manassas and the Bull Run Creek, is a clear Confederate victory | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Julia Ward Howe publishes The Battle Hymn of the Republic, inspired by a visit to Union troops in the American Civil War | |
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| 1862 |
| | | A two-day engagement at Shiloh is the first Civil War battle to bring massive casualties, with more than 23,000 dead, wounded or missing | |
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| 1862 |
| | | In a surprise raid, Union forces sail up the Mississippi estuary to capture New Orleans | |
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| 1863 |
| | | Mobs of women destroy shops in Richmond, Virginia, in protest at food prices inflated by the war | |
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| 1864 |
| | | Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman become Lincoln's two leading generals in the final thrust of the Civil War | |
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| 1864 |
| | | President Lincoln is re-elected for a second term, thanks largely to recent Union successes on the Civil War battlefields | |
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