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Conflict at Fort Sumter, South Carolina,begins the Civil War
1861
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First ironclad warship completed in England
1861
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Robert E. Lee named commander of Confederate armies
1861
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The Confederate army had about 112,000 soldiers
1861
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Lee's army was turned back at the Battle of Antietam
1862
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Lincoln announced he would issue the Emancipation Proclamation
1862
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~ A decree freeing all enslaved people in a rebel territory on Jan. 1, 1863
The International Red Cross established
1862
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The American Red Cross didn't establish until 10 years later
The Merrimack, renamed the Virginia
1862
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Emancipation Proclamation was issued
1863
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Grant named commander of Union armies
1863
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London subways opened
1863
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First Geneva Convention establishes rules for treatment of prisoners of war
1864
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Sherman's march to the sea begins
1864
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Civil War ends
1865
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French writer Jules Verne publishes a novel about a trip to the moon
1865
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