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abraham lincoln was elcted president of the united states. the united states at that time was dealing with expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners.
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Beauregard sent an aide to demand the fort's surrender. Anderson refused and further discussions after midnight failed to resolve the situation. At 4:30am on April 12, a single mortar round burst over Fort Sumter signaling the other harbor forts to open fire.
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the Battle of Shiloh raged in Tennessee. Approximately 23,746 men died. Of those, 13,047 were Union soldiers. While there were more Union than Confederate casualties, the battle did result in a tactical victory for the North.
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as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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took place in Virginia from May 1-4, 1863. It resulted in 24,000 casualties of which 14,000 were Union soldiers. The confederates won the battle.
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resulted in 51,000 casualties of which 28,000 were Confederate soldiers. The Union was considered the winner of the battle.
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It was a victory for the Confederacy that resulted in 34,624 casualties of which 16,170 were Union soldiers.
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is alt
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took place in Virginia. 30,000 casualties of which 18,000 were Union soldiers. However, it was not conclusive whether the union or the confederacy won the battle.
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President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C.