Phillip Stone, a Harrisonburg lawyer who has served as president of Bridgewater College and Sweet Briar College, holds an ...

Abraham Lincoln pardoned Joe Biden's great-great-grandfather ... Union Army civilian employee John J Alexander on March 21, 1864. Robinette was a veterinary surgeon for the Union Army.

Breckenridge, on a slave code ticket. 1864: Republican / National Union Party: Abraham Lincoln In the midst of the Civil War, the Republican Party asked that the country continue to fight ...

Abraham Lincoln considered the South’s peculiar ... “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,” he wrote in 1864. “I cannot remember when I did not so think, and feel.” ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County ... In 1860, Lincoln was the first ever president to be elected with less than 50% of the vote. In the election of 1864, he ran ...

Among other things, I've written before about Lincoln's lessons for us ... his role in emancipating the slaves of D.C. and nationwide, his 1864 appointment of Salmon P. Chase to the Supreme ...

National Museum of American History Abraham Lincoln's Watch, around 1858 National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of James Brown, Civil War veteran, with a picture of Abraham ...