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Union victory and aftermath
The war resulted in at least 1,030,000 casualties (3 percent of the population), including about 620,000 soldier deaths—two-thirds by disease, and 50,000 civilians. Binghamton University historian J. David Hacker believes the number of soldier deaths was approximately 750,000, 20 percent higher than traditionally estimated, and possibly as high as 850,000.The war accounted for more American deaths than in all other U.S. wars combined.
• 亚伯拉罕·林肯(Abraham Lincoln,1809年2月12日-1865年4月15日),共和党人,美国政治家、 思想家、战略家,黑人奴隶制的废除者。第16任美国总统,其任总统期间,美国爆发内战,史称南 北战争,林肯坚决反对国家分裂。他废除了叛乱各州的奴隶制度,颁布了《宅地法》、《解放黑人 奴隶宣言》。林肯击败了南方分离势力,维护了美利坚联邦及其领土上不分人种、人人生而平等的 权利。内战结束后不久,林肯遇刺身亡,是第一个遭遇刺杀的美国总统,也是首位共和党籍总统, 多次被评价为最伟大的总统。最新版5美元纸币正面是亚伯拉罕·林肯的照片。
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• Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.