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Reform Bill
Granted suffrage to all male British citizens, dramatically expanding the electorate. The success of American democratic experiment, reinforced by the Union victory in the Civil war, was used as one of the arguments in favor of the Bill. -
Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
Key victory of the Union General Ulysses S. Grant, it secured the North's hold on Kentucky and paved the way for Grant's attacks deeper into Tennessee. -
Shiloh
A battle of the Civil War on the Tennessee borders that resulted in the deaths of more than 23,000 soldiers and ended in the marginal Union victory -
The Man Without a Country
Edward Everett Hale wrote a fictional story called "the Man Without a Country" inspired by the Vallandigham case. -
Wilderness campaign
A series of brutal clashes between Ulysses S. Grant's and Robert Lee's armies in Virginia, leading up to Grant's capture in Richmond . -
Sherman's March
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's destructive march through Georgia.