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south carrlina was the first to secede from the federal union they also praticipated in the civil war
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Abraham lincon built the republican party, he also got assasinated, he also was the first established republican party elected.
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Confederate General. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on kicking off the Battle of Fort Sumter. After a 34-hour exchange of artillery fire, Anderson and 86 soldiers surrendered the fort on April 13
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the confederate won against the union force. but both sides suffered casualties. The Union suffered 2,896 casualties including 460 killed. The Confederates had 1,982 casualties with 387 killed.
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the battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek. Part of the Maryland Campaign, it was the first field army–level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It was the bloodiest day in American history,
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The fighting that took place in the houses and streets of Fredericksburg was the first major instance of urban warfare in the Civil War.
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"that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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Vicksburg’s strategic location on the Mississippi River made it a critical win for both the Union and the Confederacy
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was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America, involving around 85,000 men
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an African American infantry, famously depicted in the movie Glory.
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The purpose of Sherman’s March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
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Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865.
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Union victory. Lee’s formal surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865,
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"Four score 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.