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Trent Affair

Abraham Lincoln, by George Peter Alexander Healy

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  • Civil War: Union Military Leaders
    Civil War: Union Military Leaders

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    View images of Union leaders from the Civil War, like Abraham Linoln and Ulysses S. Grant, and learn more about the roles they played in this bloody engagment.

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    Civil War: Confederate Leaders

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    View images of Confederate leaders from the Civil War, like Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and learn more about the roles they played protecting the southern states.

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    Civil War: Antietam

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    Explore the Battle of Antietam--one of the bloodiest of the Civil War-- through photographs of soldiers, the battlefield and monuments.

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    Explore Civil War artifacts, from medical kits and personal hygiene items, to carbines and currency.

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  • Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln

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    Today he is known as one of the greatest American presidents, but at the time of his election no one would have predicted Lincoln's success.

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  • Civil War in One Word
    Civil War in One Word

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    If you had just one word to describe the Civil War, what would it be?

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  • America and the Civil War
    America and the Civil War

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    Discover how the bloodiest war in American history transformed the face of the nation.

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  • Impact of the Civil War
    Impact of the Civil War

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    The Civil War was a long and gruesome conflict that claimed more than 620,000 lives and had lasting effects on military and civilian survivors.

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  • Lincoln's War Machine
    Lincoln's War Machine

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    Twenty-four thousand miles of railroad replenishes troops and supplies for the North and delivers disaster to the South.

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Read More about Trent Affair

On November 8, 1861, the U.S. Navy boarded the Trent, a British mail steamer at sean near the Bahamas, and arrested Confederate envoys James Mason and John Slidell.

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