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President Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln When Abraham Lincoln took office, all sides pressured him to compromise: either to give in to the spread of slavery or to let the South go its own way. The fact that Lincoln was married to southern belle Mary Todd, whose brothers were in ...
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Strengths and Weaknesses of North and South and the Civil War
Strengths and Weaknesses of North and South The strengths of the Union were obvious from the beginning. In terms of population, the Union was more than twice the size of the Confederacy—and one- third of the Confederate population was enslaved. With a larger ...
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The Start of the Civil War
The Start of the War In April 1861, the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, South Carolina. In the months since secession, the Confederates had taken over federal arsenals, forts, and other property throughout the South. Federal troops inside ...
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The Union Takes the Mississippi River During the Civil War
The Union Takes the Mississippi River In February of 1862, Union troops captured Forts Henry and Donelson and the city of Nashville, Tennessee. These successes accomplished three things. First, the North gained control of Kentucky and western Tennessee, a power ...
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The Army of the Potomac
The Army of the Potomac While Grant led successful campaigns in the West and South, General George McClellan led the Army of the Potomac against Johnston and Lee’s Confederate forces near the capital cities of Washington and Richmond. Although McClellan ...
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The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation In April 1862, Lincoln issued an executive order that freed all the slaves in Washington, DC. In September, he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which had two main provisions. First, it stated that as of January 1, ...
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Gettysburg - the Turning Point in the Civil War
Gettysburg: The Turning Point Lee decided to take his troops north, following his original plan to win the war on Union territory. He gathered 75,000 troops at the sleepy town of Gettysburg in eastern Pennsylvania. This location became the major battle and the ...
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The War of Attrition
The War of Attrition Grant laid siege to Vicksburg, Mississippi, organizing the Union troops in commanding strategic position on the bluffs overlooking the river. The siege was successful. On July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Union troops ...
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The Assassination of Lincoln
The Assassination of Lincoln Across the South, people received news of the defeat with profound bitterness that would take many decades to heal. One excitable young man, the dashing stage actor John Wilkes Booth, was utterly crushed by the news of the Union ...
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