DATE

1863. September 6. Fort Wagner captured September 15. The writ of habeas corpus sus

September 19-20. Battle of Chickamauga
October 8. Great Britain ordered the deten-
tion of Confederate vessels built at

Liverpool

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October 17. Lincoln called for three hundred

thousand troops
November 24. Battle of Lookout Mountain
December 8. Proclamation of Amnesty and
Reconstruction issued

December 20. Joseph E. Johnston appointed
to command of the Confederate armies
in the West

March 2. Grant appointed lieutenant-general
April 11. Slavery abolished in Louisiana.
April 11. Slavery abolished by the Pierpoint
government in Virginia.

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May 5. Naval battle in Albemarle Sound
May 5-6. Battle of the Wilderness.
May 8-21. Battle of Spottsylvania

Battle of Kenesaw Mountain

June 17. Hood appointed to succeed Johnston

June 19. The Alabama destroyed off Cher

bourg

June 23. McPherson killed

June 24.

State Constitutional Convention of Maryland proposed abolition of slavery.

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October 27.

DATE

1864. August 5. Naval battle in Mobile Bay September 3. Atlanta surrendered

September 19. Third Battle of Winchester.
Battle of Fisher's Hill.
The Florida captured in the har-
bor of Bahia

September 22.
October 7.

October 19. Battle of Cedar Creek.

Cushing destroyed the Albe

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Lee's army

December 22. Savannah captured

1865. January 9. Missouri abolished slavery
January 14. Tennessee adopted constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery

January 15. Fort Fisher captured
January 31. Thirteenth Amendment abolish-
ing slavery passed

February 3. Hampton Roads Conference

held on the River Queen .
February 18. Charleston evacuated
February 22. Wilmington taken

February 23. J. E. Johnston re-appointed to
command the Army of the Tennessee
March. The Confederate Congress author-
ized the enlistment of negroes
April 1.
April 2. Petersburg and Richmond evacuated
April 7. Grant demands the surrender of

Battle of Five Forks

April 9. The Army of Northern Virginia

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surrendered

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April 14. Anderson raised the old flag over

the ruins of Fort Sumter

April 14. Lincoln assassinated

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April 17. Negotiations opened for the sur

render of Johnston's forces .

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April 18. Articles of peace agreed between
Sherman and Johnston

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April 26. Johnston surrendered his army.
May 4. Taylor surrendered the Confederate
forces East of the Mississippi

May 26. Kirby Smith surrendered the Con-
federate army West of the Mississippi
May 10. Jefferson Davis captured at Irwins-
ville
November 6. The Confederate privateer

Shenandoah surrendered by Great Britain
December 18. Ratification of Thirteenth
Amendment proclaimed

1868. The indictment of Jefferson Davis dismissed.

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April 21. The Cabinet repudiated Sherman's
agreement with Johnston

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