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General Stonewall Jackson was born January 21, 1824. He was born in Clarksburg, Virginia. Jackson fought with Robert E. Lee in the Mexican War and in the American Civil War. On May 2, 1863, in his last march of the Civil War, Jackson was wounded by friendly fire. He died of pneumonia several days later on May 10 at Guiney's Station, Virginia.

John Wilkes Booth was an American actor infamous for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was a successful professional stage actor of his day, and a member of the Booth family of actors. He was also Confederate sympathizer who was dissatisfied with the outcome of the American Civil War. He was born in 1838 on a farm near Bel Air.

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During President James Buchanan’s administration, the country suffered a short but sever economic depression. The South escaped the worst effects of the so-called Panic of 1857 and this convinced many Southerners of the superiority of their slave supported economic system.

Senator James Hammond of South Carolina claimed triumphantly Cotton King. The panic heightened the conflict between the North and South.

In the South, 2000 people were employed in the manufacture of clothing in the North, 100,000 were sp engaged. During 1860 the importers the South was valued at $331 million those of the North at $31 million. It was thus obvious that the South was dependent on Europe and on the North for materials good. The lack of resources forced the Confederacy to levy war taxes and barrow heavily on future cotton crops.

General Robert E. Lee was born January 19 1807 at Stratford in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He died October 12, 1870 Lexington Virginia. He was the General of the Confederate States of America. He served in the Mexican War. In 1836 he became first lieutenant, and in 1838 captain. In this rank he took part in the Mexican war.

Abraham Lincoln was born Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and he was named for his paternal grandfather. Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.

Abraham Lincoln

His contributes were ending of American slavery and the preservation of the Union through his leadership of the Federal forces during the Civil War. He chose the Union generals and approved their strategies he selected the senior government officials he oversaw foreign diplomacy. His remarkable influences were driven by his powerful rhetoric as an orator. His Gettysburg Address rededicated the nation to a new birth of freedom and democracy and remains a core component of the American value system.

As Lincoln's election became more probable, secessionists made it clear that their states would leave the Union. They decided to stay in the Union, though warning Lincoln they would not support an invasion through their territory. President Buchanan and President-elect Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy, which became the immediate cause of the war.
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