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1863 (cont.)

Battles of Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge (Grant defeats Bragg, ending the Confederate threat in Tennessee and opening Georgia to Union invasion).

Lincoln ' s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

1864

National Banking System established

Grant becomes general-in-chiefofthe Union armies

Thirteenth Amendment passes Senate

Battle of the Wilderness (Grant fight Lee indecisively)

Sherman launches drive against Atlanta

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (Grant fights Lee to a stand-off).

Battle of Cold Harbor (Lee defeats Grant, who abandons frontal assault tactics). Union losses in one month of fighting on this front total nearly 60,000 casualties.

Lincoln renominated

Grant begins siege of Petersburg

Lincoln pocket vetoes the Wade-Davis bill

Jubal Early's raid against Washington
Federal dollar worth 39 cents, lowest of the war

Confederate cavalry burn Chambersburg, p A

Farragut captures port of Mobile

McClellan nominated (Democratic party)

Atlanta falls to Sherman

Lincoln re-elected

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