David Derickson, a close companion of Abraham Lincoln’s. From 1862 to 1863, President Lincoln was accompanied by a bodyguard from the Pennsylvania Bucktail Brigade named Captain David Derickson.

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Abraham Lincoln, in a stirring call to spiritual unity amid the carnage of the Civil War, issued his emotionally powerful Thanksgiving proclamation on this day in history, Oct. 3, 1863.

The Hanover area's newest mural, which will be finished in the spring, will commemorate Lincoln's passage just feet away from where the mural stands.

"3 Summers of Lincoln" is the story of the three times Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass met in the summers of 1862, 1863, and 1864. Gabriel Greene, La Jolla Playhouse's Director of Artistic ...

Find out more about the life of Abraham Lincoln, the president who preserved the Union and helped abolish slavery.

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.

Opinion Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation, 1863 Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email ...