War broke out in April 1861 with the attempt by the Federal government to resupply ... Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President ... In his inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1861, Lincoln proclaimed that it was his duty to maintain the Union.

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination ... and strangely prophetic visit here four years earlier. In February 1861, on his way to his first inauguration and with war imminent, he raised the American ...

In The Revenue Act of 1861, signed by Abraham Lincoln on August 5, 1861, Lincoln taxed imports, established a land tax, and imposed a 3 percent income tax on individuals earning more than $800 per ...

Abraham Lincoln richly deserves his own day instead ... was the longest railroad in the world at the time of his inauguration in 1861. He even dabbled in urban planning, drafting a plan for ...

National Museum of American History Abraham Lincoln's Watch, around 1858 National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of James Brown, Civil War veteran, with a picture of Abraham ...

When considering pardon requests during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln typically sought to pursue ... D.C., after two consecutive nights on guard duty in 1861. For this crime, Scott was court ...

Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his way to the White House: on Feb. 19, 1861, he joined a ... Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never spoke to one another ...

Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier ... Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, and by then the country was already collapsing. South Carolina and six other slave states had seceded ...