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    1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States.

    1861 February - The Confederate States of America is formed, with Jefferson Davis sworn in

    as president.

    1861 April 12 Confederates fires on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

    1861 April 19 Lincoln orders the blockade of ports in Confederate states.

    1862 June 25 The Seven Days (the Peninsula Campaign) for Richmond, Virginia; 36,000

    casualties.

    1863 April 21 to May 11 The Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia; 30,051 casualties.

    1863 July 1 to 3 The Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania 51,000 casualties.

    1863 November 19Lincolns Gettysburg Address dedicates a battlefield cemetery at

    Gettysburg Pennsylvania.

    1865 February 3 Lincoln meets with Confederate Peace Commission at Hampton Roads,

    Virginia.

    1865 April 9 Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.

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    "See what a lot of land these fellows hold, of which Vicksburg is the key! The war can never be brought

    to a close until that key is in our pocket.... We can take all the northern ports of the Confederacy and

    they can defy us from Vicksburg." Abe Lincoln

    On reaching that place on July 1, General Reynolds found Buford's cavalry warmly engaged with the

    enemy . . . Major-General Reynolds immediately moved around the town of Gettysburg, and advanced

    upon the Cashtown road, and without a moment's hesitation deployed his advanced division and

    attacked his enemy. . . . george meade

    Driving back these troops to within a short distance of the town, he there encountered a larger force,

    with which two of his divisions became engaged, Ewell, coming up with two of his divisions by the

    Heidlersburg road, joined in the engagement. The enemy was driven through Gettysburg with heavy

    loss, including about 5,000 prisoners and several pieces of artillery.-robert lee

    The civilians along the line of march could not do enough for us. Most every household standing ready

    with water buckets dealing out water to the boys as we marched along, and the Stars and Stripes

    hanging out in all directions. It made us feel as if we were home once more, and the citizens of Southern

    Pennsylvania, through their kindness to the soldiers have put now life into us.- henry Kaiser

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    The enemy was driven back and we regained the ground lost a short time before. We halted in a hollow

    behind a stone fence, having marched, since last evening, thirty two miles. Kaiser

    It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here

    have thus so nobly advanced- Lincoln

    . . . We assert that fourteen of the states have deliberately refused for years past to fulfill their

    constitutional obligations, and we refer to their own statutes for the proof. The Constitution of the

    United States, in its 4th Article, provides as follows: "No person held to service or labor in one state,

    under the laws thereof, escaping into another shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be

    discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such

    service or labor may be due." South carolina justification