Gov. J.B. Pritzker and wife donate key Civil War document to Lincoln presidential library

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Gov. J.B. Pritzker and wife donate key Civil War document to Lincoln presidential library

SPRINGFIELD — 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 defeated in 1865. The plan became Lincoln’s first direct mili…