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Civil War | The Fires at Home | 4

American History Tellers

CHAPTER

The Fires at Home

President Abraham Lincoln visited his top military commander in the east, General George McClellan. The Union had just won a hard-fought victory at Antietam - the war's deadliest battle. Confederate General Robert E. Lee had retreated back across the Potomac River after his failed invasion of Maryland. And as conditions on the home front grew worse, long-standing racial and class tensions erupted into deadly riots.

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