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    <body><![CDATA[Next to the mostly successful Southern armies, Lincoln faced another challenge; the Union citizens who opposed the administration's policies of revoking the writ of Habeas Corpus, sending troops to invade the South, creating the draft, the Emancipation Proclamation, his approving the arrest and impr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20681255">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A study of the anti-war faction in the North during the Civil War. A fascinating topic usually skimmed over in textbooks and surveys of the US Civil War. Written in more of an academic style than a &quot;popular&quot; style.]]></body>
    
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