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1858

1859

1860

1861

1862

1863

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ABRAHAM LINCO:N. 1860 AND 1865

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The f irst portrait shows Lincoln in June 1860. at the opening of his presidential campaign.The second. taken just four days before his assassination. reveals the psychological andphysical tol l the Civi l War exacted from Lincoln. (chic.+~o Hiirorical Socielyl

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The Buchanan Adminisntion

Resident Jamu Buchanan 1857-1861Vice Presidentsecretary of stare

Attorney General

John C. BreckinridgeLewis CamJeremiah S. BlackHowell CobbPhilip ThomasJohn A. Dix]&II B. FloydJoseph HaltJeremiah S. BlackEdwin M. StanronAaron V. BrownJoseph HoltHoratio King

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Secretary of Navy Isaac Toucey 1857-1861secretary of ]acob Thompson 1857-1861

Interior

The Lincoln Administration

President Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865Vice President Hannibal Hamlm 1861,1865

Andrew ]ohnson 1865Secretary d Srate Wdliam H. Seward 1861-186ssecretary of Samuel P;, Chase 1861-1864

TreaSUv Wilbam PI Feswnden 1664-1865Hugh McCulloch 1865

secretq of War Simon Cameron 1861-1862Edwin M. Stanron 1862-1865

Attorney General Emvard Bates 1861-1864Jama Speed 1864-1865

POStIlX%ter Horatio Kmg 1861General Montgomery Blair 1861-1864

William Dennison 1864-1865jecrerary of Navy Gideon Weller 1861-1865%crecary of Caleb B. Smub 1861-1863

Interior John P. Usher 1863-1865

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‘The Book that Made this Great War” Lincoin’r cei

ebroted remark to ouc~or Horr~et Beecher Stow reflectedthe enormous emotronol rmpoct of her impowoned POWI

John Brown’

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FREE AREAS AND SLAVE AREAS IN 1660

THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AXlERICA

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Major General

Joseph Hooker,

*“ccc**or to

Burnside. Bril-

liant organizer

and strategic

&mer. he lost

his nerve et

Chencellorwille

General) Robert

4nderson com-

manded the

small force in the

hopeless defeqse

of Fort Sumter.

._-,-_ - _.._._.Ambrose E. Burnside.

unhappy successor

to McClellan andauthor of the

Union tragedy et

Fredericksburg.

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General Beauregard (NAl Major General

Irvin McDowell INAl

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Major General

George 6.

McClellan. Small

triumphs in

western Virginia

brought him

over-all com-

mand of Union

armies in 1862. (KA)

Liautenant Gene&

Thomas J.

( ‘Stonewall7

Jackson. (NA)

Major General

John Pope, confisad

commander of the

Union Army of

Virginic. (LC)

Joseph t.

Johnston. (LC)

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: Lieutenant GeneralRichard S. Ewell. ILCI

Major General

George G. Meah

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Braxton Bragg,Jn expert organizer anddisciplinarian. he never

knew what to do withSUCCBSS. (B&L)

Major Generai

William S.

Rosecrans. Vic-

tor at luka,

Corinth, and

Stone’s River, he

failed at

Chickamauga.

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Sherman’s Drive East and North: May I&UApril 186s

Major General William

T. Sherman. He waged

“total wei’in his Atlanta

Campaign. his March to

the Sea. and his sweep

through the Carolinas.

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Grant’s Campaign Around Richmond: May 1864-

A $1.00 greenback, August 1, 1862. This note bore apicture of Secretary of the Treasury Chase, who wastoter referred to as “Old Greenback.”

A $100 Confederate note, 1864. Confederate papernotes were poorly engraved on coorre paper and pic-tured actual and mythological figures. This note showsLucy Pickehs, wife of the South Carolina governor.

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