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At Abraham Lincoln's inauguration he said he would have no plans to end slavery for the states that already have slavery. He also said he wanted to resolve the national crisis without war.
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People that lived in the western part of Virginia did not agree with the rest of the state and was admitted to the Union as the state of West Virginia.
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President Abraham Lincoln started a war, telling the Union to launch an aggressive action to the Confederacy but . General McClellan did not obey the order.
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The Union and Confederate forces got together at the Tennessee and Georgia border. After the fatal battle, the Union army forces ran to Chattanooga, and the Confederacy maintained and controlled the battlefield.
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Grant kept attacking Confederate Forces at Cold Harbor even though over 7,000 of his men died in less than 30 minutes. It was a clear that the Confederate Forces won the battle.
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Abraham Lincoln was shot after watching a performance at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. The next morning he died and John Wilkes escaped to Virginia. 11 days later John was killed by a Union Soldier. 9 people in total were involved in the assassination and 4 were hanged, 4 were imprisoned, and 1 pleaded not guilty.
