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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President Abraham Lincoln had to decide how to retaliate against the Southern states. The Anaconda Plan would be the result, a critical strategy the Union employed to cut off the supply chains to the South that would remain in place until the Confederacy was .
(SPRINGFIELD) A group of gun control advocates rallied yesterday in Springfield, at the Illinois Statehouse. Those attending were calling for the state to p .