As tensions flared, shot felled U.S. senator Duel over slavery a Civil War portent
Posted: September 13, 2009 at 8:17 a.m.
Nearly two years before the first shots were fired in the Civil War, simmering hostilities over slavery exploded on a "field of honor" in California, where a pro-slavery judge mortally wounded an antislavery senator in a duel.
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