Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what ...
The election of Lincoln prompted the South to begin to withdraw, or secede, from the Union. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln delivered a final plea to the South to remain, but to no avail. War ...
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President ... In his inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1861, Lincoln proclaimed that it was his duty to maintain the Union.
ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous ...
and the other the Bible used by Lincoln in his 1861 swearing-in. “I think it would be hard if George Washington came back from the dead, and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice president ...
On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for ...