The document summarizes key events of the American Civil War, including battles such as Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg. It discusses Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to emancipate slaves in Confederate states, and his delivery of the Gettysburg Address later that year at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania. The war concluded in April 1865 with Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendering to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.