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Americans reacted to the secession crisis
In 1850 Augusta County in Virginia were staunchly loyal to the Union, shifted loyalty late in the secession crisis of 1860 and 1861. Comparing local reactions to national politics with local views on the nature and unity of political communities more generally moves the decision to secede in April 1861. Cochran talks about the growing anxiety and uncertainty surrounding South Carolina's threat of secession and evaluates the South's readiness for a war and state of his financials as well as the health of his family (Augusta County: John H. Cochran to His Mother, December 11, 1860). He also enclosed letters detailing the state of the soldiers condition to the senate. During the War, Pennsylvania a Union state, providing a huge supply of military manpower, equipment, and leadership to the Federal government. The state raised over 360,000 soldiers for the Federal armies, and served as a major source of artillery guns, small arms, ammunition, armor for the new revolutionary style of ironclad types of gunboats for the rapidly expanding United States Navy, and food supplies. Joseph Helker provides an account of his time spent fishing and tells about a nice woman he met near Mount Washington (Franklin County: Joseph Helker to George Miller, October 12, 1861). Joseph is trying to keep George include in the family even though he is at war. …show more content…

Lincoln's physical attributes, including his extraordinary six-foot-four-inch height, large hands, over-sized ears, prominent nose and ungainly gait, provided easy targets for ridicule. His lack of formal education (he spent only one year in school) supplied his detractors the ammunition to attack his intelligence and deride his mental abilities.

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