Lincoln Calls 75,000 Volunteers: The Civil War Begins in Earnest
President Abraham Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers to quell the insurrection instantly transformed a regional dispute into a full-scale civil war. This mobilization forced four additional slave states to secede from the Union, swelling the Confederacy and ensuring a conflict that would last four years.
April 15, 1861
165 years ago
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Abraham Lincoln
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President Lincoln's 75,000 Volunteers
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Abraham Lincoln
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Proclamation 80
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President
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John Wilkes Booth
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Andrew Johnson
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