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Radical Republicans
The Radical Republicans were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854. -
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, from 1861 to 1865. -
Southern secesssion
Some have argued for a constitutional right of secession and others for a natural right of revolution. The United States Supreme Court ruled unilateral secession unconstitutional while commenting that revolution or consent of the states could lead to a successful secession.
The one serious secession movement was defeated in the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 -
Antietam
About 23,000 amrican dead -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation is a military order issued to the Army and Navy of the United States by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. -
Stonewall Jackson
His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863. -
Clara Barton
In 1864 she was appointed by Union General Benjamin Butler as the "lady in charge" of the hospitals at the front of the Army of the James. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
Ulysses S Grant
Upset over uncontrolled violence in the South, President Grant effectively destroyed the Ku Klux Klan in 1871. -
Appomattox Courthouse
The Appomattox Courthouse is the current courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia built in 1892.
