Tim Williams, left, and David Hare, right, perform a reenactment of a special legislative session called by Governor Erastus Fairbanks in April, 1861 in response to Abraham Lincoln’s request for troops and funds at the outbreak of the Civil War in Montpelier, Vt.

First published in the July 21, 2011, 3:11 p.m. edition

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