One of Lincoln’s earliest pardons involved a young soldier from Vermont named William Scott who fell asleep at his post near Washington, D.C., after two consecutive nights on guard duty in 1861. For ...
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia ...
As the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.
Kennedy mostly avoided civil rights issues ... Republicans had attracted African American votes since the days of Abraham Lincoln, emancipation, and the Fifteenth Amendment.