Corbis Abraham Lincoln, at Antietam in 1862 with security guard Allan Pinkerton (left) and Maj. Gen. John McClernand, has far less military experience than Jefferson Davis, having served only as a ...

Harold Holzer - Author, Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and Immigration ... Confederate President Jefferson Davis received word of the president’s death in an April 19 telegram ...

The Yankees had already targeted Jefferson Davis for capture or worse ... Robert, Tad, and Abraham Lincoln Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division This is the cover of a sheet music ...

was the party of Abraham Lincoln?" he queried. Lincoln he named along with Jefferson and Jackson and Wilson (Henry Wallace was to add the prophet Amos and the Boston Tea Party mob) as a father of ...

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the ... Lincoln trampling the constitution and armed with two swords; Jefferson Davis or Uncle Sam lies beaten in the background Excerpt from book ...

NMAH/SI Upon hearing the name Abraham ... Davis, was said to have helped with the model, which was just over two feet long. But Johnston thinks it's possible that the detailed miniature Lincoln ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical ... Confederate States of America, electing Jefferson Davis as its president. On April 12, 1861 ...

Abraham Lincoln was ... On the night Lincoln died, he dressed for the theater in a silk top hat, size 7-1/8, from the Washington hatmaker J. Y. Davis, to which he had added a black silk mourning ...

A conservation project 10 years in the making is bringing new life to an old railroad site once walked by Presidents Abraham ...

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the ... Lincoln trampling the constitution and armed with two swords; Jefferson Davis or Uncle Sam lies beaten in the background Excerpt from book ...