Writing to a lawyer, the founding editor of The New York Times conveyed his vast respect for President Abraham Lincoln.
That kind of luck wouldn’t keep. The Daily Missouri Democrat was all for Abraham Lincoln, Republican for president. (In fine irony, the Missouri Republican newspaper backed Stephen Douglas, the ...
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When I was running for Congress last year in the GOP primary in Ohio’s 2 nd District, I realized that almost every county Republican Party holds an annual "Lincoln Dinner" to honor our 16 th president ...
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army in the Civil War and a future president of the United States, and David G. Farragut, the Navy’s first admiral, were among the pallbearers who ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Tim O'Neil Jun 14, 2014 Jun 14, 2014 0 Torchlight and trumpets filled the frenetic night of Nov. 5, 1860, eve of a fateful ...