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  one of the bloodiest battles of the civil war
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  the people of tenneessee were torn between the two sides
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  even so,many northerners became discouraged by the long lists of war casualties
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  it said that all enslaved people in areas fighting against the union would be "then,thencefoward, and forever free."
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  the union army finally had a general as effective as general robert e. lee
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  president abraham lincoln talks about healing the nation from wounds cuased by the war
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  confederate troops evacuatedrichmond,virginia as they left