With the benefit of hindsight we know this but contemporaries were not so privileged. Northerners were war weary because there was little to show for lengthening casualty lists and no end to the ...

Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846 ... Lincoln named Grant commander of all federal armies in March 1864. With Lincoln's support, Grant pursued a policy of total war ...

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that ... Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the ...

“Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print” is on view through December 28—running more than a month before and after the presidential election on ... created for the 1864 Great Central Fair ...

Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846 ... Lincoln named Grant commander of all federal armies in March 1864. With Lincoln's support, Grant pursued a policy of total war ...

For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...