November 1862 election slams Lincoln policies, ... On November 12th, Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln passed through Springfield on her way from Boston to Washington in her private railroad car.

On Aug. 22, 1862, a month before Lincoln signed the proclamation and a month after he had discussed a draft of it with his Cabinet, he wrote a letter in response to an editorial by Horace Greeley ...

On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota were hanged, the largest mass execution in American history . Historians discussed the Dakota War of 1862. The conflict in Minnesota resulted in the mass execution ...

A statue of President Abraham Lincoln was vandalized in Chicago's Lincoln Park on Monday to protest an execution order he signed in 1862 that put 38 Native American men to death.

For a party that had only been formed in 1854, this was an astonishing opportunity to transform America, and the Republicans seized it.Going into the following midterms, in 1862-63, Lincoln’s ...

"Rise to Greatness" covers nearly all the most important facets of Lincoln and the Civil War in 1862. The volume places major stress on political and military events.

Hank Cox talked about his book [Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862], published by Cumberland House Publishing. It chronicles how President Lincoln dealt with an Indian rebellion in Minnesota.

Learn more about the full cast of Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862 with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide ...

RISE TO GREATNESS: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year, by David Von Drehle. Henry Holt, 466 pp. $30.. A case can certainly be made -- and is ably advanced in this spellbinding new ...

On this day in 1862, in the second year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln told his Cabinet that he planned to issue a proclamation freeing slaves.