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In 1860 Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In November 1860 election Lincoln again faced Doughlas, who represented the northern faction of a heavily divided democratic party.
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The battle of fort sumter was the bombardment of fort sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate states army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States army that started the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Hampton Roads, often referred to as either the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, or the battle of ironclads, was the most noted and arguably and most important naval battle of the American civil war from the standpoint of the development of navies.
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The battle of Antietam, also known as the battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the south, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam creek as part of the Maryland Campaign.
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The battle of stones river or second battle of Murfreesboro, was fought from December 31, 1862 to January 2, 1862, in middle Tennessee, as the culmination of the stones river campaign in the western theater of the American civil war.
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The siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign in the American civil war.
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The battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by union and confederate forces during the American civil war.
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Sherman's march to sea more formally known as the savannah campaign, was a military campaign of the American civil war conducted through Georgia from November, 15 through December 21, 1864 Maj.
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Appomottox is a living museum of restored homes, businesses and tavern marking the surrender that ended the civil war.
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the united states, was assassinated by Jhon Wilkes Booth on good Friday April 14, 1865, wile attending the play our American cousin at Ford's theatre in Washington.
