After the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860, South Carolina began plans to withdraw from the Union, and the meeting grounds in Abbeville were an important site at the beginning of the ...
OF the great leaders of the war period, none has been so commonly misunderstood and so frequently misrepresented as William H. Seward. This has been chiefly due to an erroneous conception of his ...
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As usual, old times here are not forgotten. On Monday, historians, politicians, re-enactors and curiosity seekers gathered in Charleston to mark the 150th anniversary of South Carolina's secession ...
On December 20, 1860, six weeks after voters of the United States elected Abraham Lincoln as the 16 th president, South Carolina seceded from the union. Other Southern states soon followed, leading ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union 165 years ago Saturday, starting the path towards the American Civil War. The vote was passed ...
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