CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR.     As the year 1864 wore towards its close, military events manifestly approached a climax. In 1861 the two ...

Abraham Lincoln Pardons Two Confederate Soldiers     "On Thursday of last week, two ladies from Tennessee came before the Pre...

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ...

Lincoln and the Question of Slavery     The institution of slavery was always and only hateful to the earnest and honest nature of L...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE RAIL CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN 1860.    This incident was the means of enlarging the soubriquet "Honest A...