The document summarizes key events and people of the American Civil War, including Lincoln's election which prompted several Southern states to secede and form the Confederacy, major battles such as Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg, documents such as the Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address, and General Grant's acceptance of General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865, effectively ending the Civil War.
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