Union (American Civil War)
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The Union is a term used to refer to the federal government and loyal states of the United States during the American Civil War. Its military forces and civilian population resisted the purported sece
The Union had large advantages in men and resources at the start of the war, and the ratio grew steadily in its favor as the war progressed. In the chart, "cauc men" means white men (Caucasian).[image reference needed]
Lincoln met with his Cabinet for the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation draft on July 22, 1862.
An anti-Lincoln Copperhead Democrats pamphlet from 1864
Union soldiers on Mason's Island, later renamed Theodore Roosevelt Island, on the Potomac River in 1861
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederacy and p
Lincoln in 1863
Mary Todd Lincoln with Willie and Tad
Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois, where he resided from 1844 until becoming president in 1861
A daguerreotype of Lincoln, taken around 1847, the earliest known photograph of him