New memorial will celebrate Abraham Lincoln's visit to Lake City in 1861. Here's the story
The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...
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This emancipation proclamation predates President Lincoln’s
ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more ...
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Lincoln's presidency began with worry reaching all the way to Rochester
It was March 4, 1861, and newly elected Abraham Lincoln would be inaugurated as president of a United States that was fracturing along a fault line delineated by the enslavement of Black people.
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Efforts underway to restore crumbling site where Abraham Lincoln began his political rise
In 1831, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had been hired by a man named Denton Offutt to deliver the boat ...
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Pottsville soldier carried Abraham Lincoln from Ford’s Theatre after he was shot on April 14, 1865
On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, President Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months. Five volunteer companies ...