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Lincoln's Civil War order to block Confederate ports donated to Illinois by governor and first lady...
ABC 7 El Paso· 2 days agoThe document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union’s military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War
Lincoln Documents Civil War Blockades
Idaho State Journal· 2 days agoThis photo provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows a document signed by President Lincoln in April 1861 ordering the blockade of southern United States ports after
The Man Behind Lincoln's Inauguration Photos
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 hours agoFacing the connecting corridor that linked the new House of Representatives chamber to the main building, Wood stood ready to record a quiet ceremony honoring the setting of the first monolithic ...
Maybe Erik Larson Should Have Left the Civil War Alone
New York Times· 2 days agoThe Civil War is one hell of a drug. “I’m so attracted to seeing it,” former President Donald J....
Woman accents humanity in Civil War Roundtable [The Scribbler]
Lancaster Online· 3 days agoCindy Beaston has conversations with Civil War generals. Because Beaston is committed to explaining...
What the 'Dawn of the Civil War' can tell us about today's acrimonious politics
WLRN Miami· 1 day agoIn The Demon of Unrest, author Erik Larson chronicles the five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the start of the Civil ...
Handwritten letter from First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln for sale
The Republican· 7 hours agoA handwritten letter by First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln is for sale for the first time. The letter,...
What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJune 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed 250,000 enslaved people...
"The Demon of Unrest": Recounting the first shots of the Civil War
CBS News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoStory produced by Jon Carras. Editor: George Pozderec. For more info: The Civil War, 150 years later...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering ...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 7 days agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe ...