Editing Vermont (section)

===Civil War===

{{Main|Vermont in the American Civil War}}
[[File:1827 Finley Map of Vermont - Geographicus - Vermont-finely-1827.jpg|thumb|right|Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed.]]

From the mid-1850s on, some Vermonters became [[Abolitionism|abolitionists]], which they had previously worked to contain in the South. Abolitionist [[Thaddeus Stevens]] was born in Vermont and later represented a district in Pennsylvania in Congress. He developed as a national leader and later promoted [[Radical Republicans|Radical Republican]] goals after the [[American Civil War]]. As the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]] declined and the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] grew, Vermont supported Republican candidates. In 1860, it voted for [[Abraham Lincoln]], giving him the largest margin of victory of any state.<ref>{{cite book| last = Trefousse| first = Hans| author-link = Hans Trefousse| year = 1997| title = Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian| publisher = University of North Carolina Press| location = Chapel Hill, NC| isbn = 978-0-8078-5666-6 }}</ref>

During the [[American Civil War]], Vermont sent 33,288 troops into United States service, of which 5,224 (more than 15 percent) died.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.civil-war.net/pages/troops_furnished_losses.html
 |title=Union—Troops Furnished and Deaths
 |website=The Civil War Home Page
 |access-date=April 28, 2016
|url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040611092722/http://www.civil-war.net/pages/troops_furnished_losses.html
 |archive-date=June 11, 2004
}}</ref>

The northernmost land action of the war was the [[St. Albans Raid]]—the robbery of three St. Albans banks, perpetrated in October 1864 by Confederate agents. A posse pursued the Confederate raiders into Canada and captured several, before having to turn them over to Canadian officials. Canada reimbursed the banks, released, and later re-arrested some of the perpetrators.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url= http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/516711/Saint-Albans-Raid|title= Saint Albans Raid| encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date= May 2, 2014}}</ref><ref>
{{cite book
 | last = Wilson
 | first = Dennis K.
 | title = Justice under Pressure: The Saint Albans Raid and Its Aftermath
 | publisher = University Press of America
 | date = 1992
 | page = 203
 | isbn = 978-0819185099 }}</ref>