Do you know what happened on March 20 during the U.S. Civil War? Groundwork laid: 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom's Cabin is first published 9 years before the war. 1854 the Party of Lincoln was birthed in WS in response to the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. 1862 Nathaniel Banks withdraws when threatened by Stonewall Jackson in VA. 1863 chance engagement at Battle of Vaught's Hill, TN. 1865 a planned kidnapping of POTUS Lincoln fails. [~138758:COL Mikel Burroughs] [~67210:LTC Stephen Curlee] [~124935:LTC Thomas Tennant] [~527810:MAJ Ken Landgren] [~658680:CPT M Cannonie] [~308468:SGM David W.F. 'Dave' aka "Auto" Carr LOM DMSM former MP SGT] [~362072:SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas] [~663201:SGM Steve Wettstein] [~106303:SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL] [~22186:SSgt L Ol] [~287024:SSgt Robert Marx] [~620665:SSG Leo Bell] [~76036: SSG Ed Mikus] [~786700:SGT John McConnell] [~768589:SP5 Mark Kuzinski] [~271566:PO3 Steven Sherrill] [~673920:SGT Forrest Stewart] [~182753:SGT Robert Hawks] [~567961:SPC Rickey Cook] [~378759:SrA Christopher Wright]

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Do you know what happened on March 20 during the U.S. Civil War?

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Groundwork laid: 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom's Cabin is first published 9 years before the war. 1854 the Party of Lincoln was birthed in WS in response to the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
1862 Nathaniel Banks withdraws when threatened by Stonewall Jackson in VA.
1863 chance engagement at Battle of Vaught's Hill, TN.
1865 a planned kidnapping of POTUS Lincoln fails.

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1. 1852 First publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet Beecher Stowe's best known novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property.

2. 1854 In Ripon, Wisconsin a group of citizens under led by attorney Alvan E. Bovay met in a schoolhouse in support of the abolition of slavery. They adopted the name "Republicans"

3. 1863 Battle of Vaught's Hill occurred on March 20, 1863, in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Pursuing Col. Albert S. Hall’s brigade, Confederate Brig. General John Hunt Morgan's cavalry caught up with him on the morning of the 20th, at Vaught's Hill.

4. 1865 John Wilkes Booth initially plotted to capture President Lincoln and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. However, on March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, the president failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six f

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