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 ...

On a February afternoon in 1864, Abraham Lincoln stood outside the White House, waiting impatiently for the presidential carriage he had summoned for a trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to Mathew ...

Campaign Abraham Lincoln became president at the age of 52 ... was the first ever president to be elected with less than 50% of the vote. In the election of 1864, he ran against George B. McClellan, ...

he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s first president: Washington had had to create a nation; Lincoln now ...

8 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to ... Kennedy won the U.S. presidential election, defeating Richard Nixon. Kennedy was the 35th ...

“Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print” is on view through December 28—running more than a month before and after the ...

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington ... perhaps I should say," wrote Lincoln during the 1860 presidential campaign. "When I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could ...

There are a lot of fun facts about Abraham Lincoln ... One day in 1864, Lincoln saw Jack lining up with some soldiers who were preparing to vote in the election. When he asked Tad if Jack planned ...