Lincoln also needed the support of the four slave states that had not left the Union: Delaware,Kentucky,Maryland and Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

If you are not for force, and not for dissolving the Union, there only remains some kind of compromise.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

He said the election of a citizen to the office of president should not be a reason for dissolving the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The situation was so bad,Calhoun said, that the South could not -- with honor and safety -- remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Hitler could not strengthen his forces in North Africa and Italy, because Germany also was fighting hard in the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

Anti-war activists told them that the war was not being fought to save the Union, but to free Negro slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

It is not chaos or death -- it is form,union,plan -- it is eternal life -- it is Happiness.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

"There were severe weather problems, not just in Russia but also in some of the other former Soviet Union countries."

VOA: special.2010.12.07

If the Union force attacked before Stonewall Jackson got into position, Lee could not possibly hold it back.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Once again,he said the war was not a struggle for the Union, but a fight to free the slaves of the south.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

The old general who commanded the Union forces, Winfield Scott,did not want to rush his men into battle.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

"I therefore believe that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is not broken.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

But in Washington the rating system is not governed by the labor contract with the teachers union.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

Still,the line moved forward. A few Confederates reached the Union line, but not enough to seize it.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

But he was not afraid of it. He said: "Our separation from the old Union is complete.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

"It was not difficult to agree between us that neither party is in favor of handing any more powers to the European Union."

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Lincoln said no state had a legal right to secede the Union could not be broken.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Many Americans in northern states did not support the war policies of Union President Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

For political reasons, the proclamation did not free slaves in the states that supported the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Grant did not look like a great military leader, the chief of all Union armies.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

If you are not for it, a second way is to give up the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Even with its victories and technologies,however, the Confederacy could not stop the Union navy.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The Union victory might not have been possible without the successes of its navy.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

There were not enough ships in the Union navy to blockade all of it.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The president will soon offer some idea of how much his plans have or have not changed when he gives his State of the Union speech.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

Robert E.Lee could not understand why the Union force had returned to Chancellorsville.

VOA: special.2009.10.15