The Close of the Civil War and Lincoln     As the year 1864 wore towards its close, military events manifestly approached a climax. In...

Abraham Lincoln Pardons Two Confederate Soldiers Abraham Lincoln Pardons Two Confederate Soldiers     "On Thursday of last wee...

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

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

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