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1. Decision to blockade the Southern ports (South couldn't trade its cotton)
2. Death of Sidney Johnston (rated as best General in the South)
3. Emancipation Proclamation (keeping Britain out of the war)
4. Death of Stonewall Jackson (essential other half of the Lee-Jackson team)
5. Relief of Vicksburg (liberation of the Mississippi)
6. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg (ending hopes of Confederate invasion of the North)
7. Sacking of Halleck (Union General-in-Chief who squandered his assets)
8. Grant's ending of prisoner-exchange (Confederates certain to run out of manpower)
9. Lincoln's winning the November 1864 election (the North voting to fight on)
10. Sherman's March through Georgia (bringing the South to ruin and starvation)
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Blake1861 - Fort Sumter fired upon, Civil War begins
1862-3 - South has field superiority
July 1863 - Gettysburg - Lee's army is defeated - Vicksburg falls - the Mississippi is controlled by the Union
1864 - Grant and Sherman begin campaigns in Virginia and Georgia
April 1865 - Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House, VA effectively ending the Civil War - Lincoln is shot and killed on Good Friday
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Some key battles were..... The Attack on Fort Sumter which began the Civil War
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was the key general of the south during the civil war
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The events following and leading to the Civil War.
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led the country during the civil war
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They were called Rebels during the Civil War
