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U.S. Civil War History
U.S. Civil War History
1861 - Colonel Robert E. Lee resigned from the U.S. Army. Two days earlier he had been offered command of the Union army.
1864 - The Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina, ended with the rebels capturing Plymouth. Confederated had attacked four days before in an attempt to recapture forts that had been lost to the Union two years before.
| "We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us." - Abraham Lincoln on holding elections during a military emergency. |
