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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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