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1861 |
Abraham Lincoln becomes 15th president |
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Civil War starts |
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Battles at Athens, Wilson's Creek, Lexington, |
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Major Charles Zagonyi makes a daring Union charge into Springfield |
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1862 |
Battles at Pea Ridge, Kirksville, and Lonejack |
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1863 |
Battle of Springfield |
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Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, ending slavery |
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1864 |
Price's raid through Missouri, Battles of Pilot Knob and Westport |
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1865 |
Civil War ends with Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse |
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Slavery abolished in Missouri |
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1865 |
New Constitution adopted |
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1867 |
First coal oil street lights on the square in Springfield |
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First public schools open in Springfield |
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1868 |
Fourteenth Amendment ratified, guaranteeing civil rights |
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1869 |
First transcontinental railroad completed with tracks joined at Promontory, UT |
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1870 |
The Frisco Railroad line to Springfield opens |
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The town of North Springfield is incorporated |
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1873 |
Springfield College, now Drury, opened |
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The first kindergarten was started in St. Louis |