Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of ... the 7th day of February, A.D. 1862; and Whereas, A large number of respectable citizens have earnestly besought me to commute the said ...

Support was not forthcoming. In September of 1862, after the Union's victory at Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that, unless the rebellious states returned to the Union by ...

The year 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves. Episode Two begins with the political infighting ...

Documents from the National Archive show that then President Abraham Lincoln pardoned one of President Joe Biden's ancestors ...

Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

Hutchinson might be hundreds of miles from the Land of Lincoln, but there are good reasons to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birth on this day 200 years ago. Is it because our 16th president ...

Lincoln married Mary Todd on November 4, 1842; they had four sons. Lincoln’s second son, Eddie, died in 1850 at the age of four; another, Willie, died of Typhoid fever in 1862. His youngest son, Tad ...

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Mary had said she had seen their son at the foot of her bed. In 1862, the third child of the 16th president Abraham Lincoln, and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, died of typhoid fever in the White ...