The confederate government of the south found it self in a dilemma when they heard the news, either to start the war or allow the rebellion to collapse, they chose to start the war by attacking Fort Sumter on April 12 1861, which left Fort Sumter on a blaze of fire and collapsed. ... General Robert Lee of the confederate army surrendered his army in Virginia on April 9 1856 at Appomattox Courthouse; positively this surrender ended the war witch reunited the north and the south under one nation one more time but different and better than before, this time slavery was demolished by the Great Ema...

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Once he left home he was a simple shopkeeper and manual laborer cutting wood until his first political position in 1834 after losing in his 1832 campaign when he was elected to the House of Representative for Illinois as a member of the whig party. ... This left Lincoln an unpopular figure unlike and defied by many including his cabinet many who were rival politicians, congress, and the citizens of the Union. ...

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