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US victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson along the Tennessee—Kentucky border open the Deep South to invasion.

With the support of his 9th Army Corps of 18,000 troops, General Burnside declares martial law in Nicholasville. He prohibits secessionists from voting and posts troops at polling places. These actions follow a period of heightened federal interventions in civilian life as officials seek to suppress Confederate sympathies and treasonous acts.

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