The article presents information on Emancipation Proclamation medal depicting Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the U.S. According to R.W. Julian, the Emancipation Proclamation medal was first struck in 1871, six years after Lincoln's assassination. According to Julian, the medal was struck ...
Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln on February 12, 1809, in a log cabin on a farm in Hardin County, Kentucky. Two years later the family moved to a farm on Knob Creek. There, when there was no immediate work to be done, Abraham walked two miles to the schoolhouse,...
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Lincoln is granted apatenton a device for lifting boats over shoals. May 24, 1861 Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, friend of the Lincoln family, is assassinated in Alexandria, Virginia and is honored with a state funeral in the White House the following day. ...
The Lincoln Memorial, a massive, marble columned, Greek style temple on the western side of Washington DC�s National Mall, is an awe inspiring, memorial to Abraham Lincoln and his principles of freedom for all. Abraham Lincoln is one of the country�s most beloved presidents, and ...
Slavery was at a certain point in time, legal in United States and then with the passing of legislation later during Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency was deemed illegal. The issue is that even when slavery was legal, it was considered as unethical by some as society considered it as something ...
President Abraham Lincoln spoke of preserving the United States in the Gettysburg Address when he said that a “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” What this means is that the government of the United States was created with the consen...
President Abraham Lincoln spoke of preserving the United States in the Gettysburg Address when he said that a “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” What this means is that the government of the United States was created with the consen...
Mercantile Agency. Its sole purpose was to provide business information to customers to assist them in their decision-making. Credit reporting became important work, and the company employed four future presidents in that role: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley...
While we were busy celebrating the Bicentennial of Orleans County on April 15, we overlooked April 14, 1865, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 160 years eariler. Remarkably, one young man from Orleans County was among the audience of approximately 1,700 in attendance that night at Ford’s...