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On November 8, Lincoln won by over 400,000 popular votes and easily secured an electoral majority. Seven states allowed their citizens serving as soldiers in the field to cast ballots, a first in United States history. His re election secured union victory.
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The thirteenth amendment was added to permanently free all slaves. It was added after the civil war so it could be voted in. It states that no man should ever be owned by another.
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The confederacy began to break apart and return to the union after the fall of Richmond. Ulysses S. Grant took Richmond for the union. Richmond was the confederate capital where its congress held session.
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Sherman marched through Georgia to annihilate any chance of confederate resistance after the war. Until Sherman was in place the threat of a second civil war was imminent. It also reminded the southern states that they were reinstated into the union.
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis agreed to send delegates to a peace conference with President Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward, but insisted on Lincoln's recognition of the South's independence as a prerequisite. Lincoln refused, and the conference never occurred.
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The civil war was the most deadly war in American history.620, 000 solider died altogether. 3,000,00 soldiers survived
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Robert E lee’s final stand occurred here. He thought that the unions forces were all Calvary but what caught in its backing infantry. He had no choice but to surrender.
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John Wilkes booth shot Abraham Lincoln while he was in his balcony seat at a theater. The shot was directly to the back of the head and from nearly point blank range. Wilkes was caught.
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On February 9, 1861, after Davis resigned from the United States Senate, he was selected to be the provisional President of the Confederate States of America; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November. During his presidency, Davis took charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to stop the larger, more powerful and better organized Union.
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The war forever split the north and the south. Approximately 250,000 soldiers died. And forever on blacks will be free in America
