Therefore, if they freed all the slaves, someone would predict, many whites would have no jobs and many things would be up-side-down. ... After the Battle of Bull Run, each side began to train its troops and to plan strategy for the war. There were differences between both side's strategies. ... He crossed the Rappahannock River to attack General Lee's forces. ... Before the real business, both of them were talking about other things rather than the Civil War and they seemed like good friends. ...

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By the spring 1862, the Union forces took control of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers as well as some vital southern railroads. ... The plan of capturing the Mississippi River was to capture New Orleans and they would call up Union force to join Grant's army advancing to North. ... The other battle was called the Seven Days Battle. ... In the spring of 1863, from the Mississippi River, General Grant marched east to Jackson. ... While Pope was distracted, Lee's came to Union's left side, which became a Second Battle of Bull Run. ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. ... Efforts at compromise failed, and both sides prepared for war. ... Root causes Slavery Contemporary actors, the Union and Confederate leadership and fighting soldiers on both sides believed that slavery caused the Civil War. ... They took control of federal forts and other properties within their boundaries with little resistance from outgoing President James Buch...

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As time elapsed, laziness perfused through the people like a coursing river, corruption raged through the government with the force of a great typhoon, and the Visigoths subsequently overtook the Romans like a raging fire. ... The U.S government has meddled with governments in one part of the world and waged war in other parts of the world, and often in multiple places at the same time. ... On one side of the debate, there is a group of people who desire health care at a basic level (nothing is more American than that any person has the right to own a gun, but not to have basic health care in ...

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In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... On the other hand, it was called Clinton's big ditch, but it will change New York forever. ... If you are a free slave they still can sell you to who ever want to buy you weather they lived up or down the river. ... Brown had his five sons fighting by his side. ... On the other hand, the North was one hundred percent behind Lincoln to get rid of slavery. ...

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Working through Gorgas and other officials the South assigned ordnance contracts to privately owned factories like the Tredegar Iron works in Richmond, provided loans to establish new factories, and created government owned industries like the giant Augusta Powder Works in Georgia. ... Both sides relied heavily on war bonds, that is, to loans from citizens to be repaid by future generations. ... The democrats were able to gain support of farmers in the Ohio River Valley and members of the urban working class. ...

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When speaking of one, you are speaking about the other. ... Lincoln was the skipper of the Talisman, a Mississippi River Boat, and Kennedy was the skipper of PT 109. ... President Lincoln told his side in the Emancipation Proclamation and President Kennedy reported to Congress on Civil Rights. ...

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The ambitious campaign saw many casualties by each side and showed the great determination felt by the men who fought to the end for their cause. ... America had grown and expanded in technology, trade, commerce and many other ways, but the mentality of some Americans regarding slavery had begun to change in opposition to that barbaric custom. ... General Hooker's objective was to cross the Rappahannock River and position his forces on General Lee's vulnerable flank. ... Once General Lee learns that the Union Army is across the Potomac River, he orders part of his forces to Cashtow...

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The great agitation of our once glorious Union fills the heart of every lover of liberty with gloom and dismay on the one hand, and determination and sacrifice, if needed, to retain that principle which inhabits every Southern heart--independence--on the other. ... In January, within days of each other, Mississippi seceded from the Union, with Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas following. ... Lee's loyalties proved to be on the side of the South because of his family tradition in and association with the state of Virginia. ... General Lee and other reasons are why I am proud t...

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On February 6, General Grant attacked Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River and on February 16, the fort surrendered and General Grant took in prisoners. ... Lincoln feared that if he did so, the Border States would switch sides. ... Other assassins failed to accomplish their targets. ... Herold and seven other conspirators were later tried and convicted. ...

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Both sides thought it would only last about ninety days. ... This hook-shaped line made every part of Meade's line closer to each other, allowing for speedy transportation of reinforcements and supplies to wherever necessary. ... Then came from both sides a burst of musketry. ... Grant took control of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River. ...

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