Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses Grant.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

This month,visitors to Union Station in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

To many of the people there, Lincoln's victory was a signal that ended the state's ties to the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Lincoln admitted that, even if the dispute could be settled peacefully, there were those who wanted to see the Union destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

He even said the South had good reason to leave the Union, if northern Abolitionists continued their anti-slavery campaign.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

From time to time, Union officers would ride up the hill to report what a great victory their troops were winning.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

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

Instead of offering aid, they demanded that the government sell the property of southerners to pay Union war debts.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

He had heard Lincoln say that he wanted to make it easy for the southern states to return to the Union.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

For years,rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Something was needed to raise up the spirits of the South to break the pressure of Union armies.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Buchanan said the South had good reason to leave the Union if abolitionists continued their attacks against slavery.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

There also was the danger that fighting would cause slave states still in the Union to secede and join the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.08.06