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1861 (cont.)
Lincoln revokes Fremont's emancipation edict
Davis elected first president of the Confederacy
Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell removed from the steamer Trent. Britain threatens war.
Congress creates the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
Mason and Slidell released, crisis with Britain ends
1862
Stanton appointed Secretary of War
Grant captures Fort Henry
Grant captures Fort Donelson
Davis inaugurated as President of the Confederacy
Legal tender act authorizes initial issue of greenbacks
Confederate Congress authorizes suspension of the writ ofhabeas corpus
Monitor v. Merrimac (first battle of ironclads)
McClellan begins the Peninsular Campaign
Battle of Shiloh (Grant defeats A. So Johnston, but the Union invasion of Mississippi stalls). Heavy losses (13,000 Union and nearly 11,000
Confederate casualties) reveal the growing magnitude of the conflict.
Confederacy passes first conscription act Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia
Farragut (USA) captures New Orleans
Hunter (USA) issues a proclamation freeing the slaves in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
Lincoln revokes Hunter's proclamation
Homestead Act approved
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