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 ...

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 ...

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 four electoral votes in New Jersey in 1860, with three electors pledged to a fusion ticket that would ...

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 ...

For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a ... elegant phrases of modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself.