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  The Radical Republicans were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854.
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  President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, from 1861 to 1865.
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  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
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  About 23,000 amrican dead
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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  Upset over uncontrolled violence in the South, President Grant effectively destroyed the Ku Klux Klan in 1871.
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  The Appomattox Courthouse is the current courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia built in 1892.