Senator's death in duel prefaced Civil War carnage

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    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly two years before the first shots were fired in the Civil War, simmering hostilities over slavery erupted on a "field of honor" in California, where a pro-slavery judge mortally wounded an anti-slavery senator in a duel....

    By FREDERIC J. FROMMER

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