A NATION DIVIDED In a civil war that devastated the United States for four years, President Abraham Lincoln sought unity, democracy and liberty for all
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WHAT’S THE STORY?
Less than a century after achieving its independence, the United States of America risked ripping itself permanently apart through civil war. Between 1861 and 1865 – still the bloodiest four years in the country’s history – the states of the North (known as the Union) and South (re-named as the Confederate States of America) fought bitterly for their separate ways of life.