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 ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County ... In 1860, Lincoln was the first ever president to be elected with less than 50% of the vote. In the election of 1864, he ran ...

Although Abraham Lincoln did follow some of Frederick Douglass' ideals, such as allowing Black men to join the army, they did not completely see eye-to-eye. Notably, during the Election of 1864 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...