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Timeline👏

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

1860

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected president
  • South Carolina secedes from th Union

1861

  • Texas and other Southern states ecede from the union
  • The Confederate states of America is formed
  • Sam Houston is removed as the governer of texas
  • The civil war begins with the firing on fort Sumter

1862

  • The conscription act is passed
  • Forty texas unionists are hanged in Gainesville
  • Union forces capture Galveston

1863

  • Texas and confederate forces retake Galveston
  • Union forces are defeated at sabine pass
  • Pendleton Murrah is elected governer

1863

  • Union forces are defeated near Red River

1865

  • General Lee surrenders to General Grant
  • President Lincoln is assassinated
  • The last civil war battle is fought at palimito ranch near brownsville