...WBTS and ole abe himself sent a heartfelt personal letter to her.
As it turns out this like most of the lincoln myth was a fraud. The letter was probably forged by John Hay and printed in a Boston ...
...was great-micro management was ever present. one year later a different general will show how its done and lincoln will leave him alone so he can beatlee....
Ad i read in the book,Manhunt,the 12 day chase of the lincoln's killer,there was indeed a military doctor present during the autopsy,aswell as the dentist and personal doctor.The autopsy took pla...
... Thomas Jackson been given a free hand, he could've won seccession for the south.
As it turned out, Lincoln was a very quick study, in terms of learning how to prosecute a war and put stars on ...
I can see your point for sure.But,surely Lincoln and his cabinet should have foreseen that this would possibly happen,I mean,it was pretty obvious that it would happen,that freed slaves would want to ...
... Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina seceded after lincoln called for 300,000 troops to "put down the rebellion" (a de facto declara...
...ples of parents not so much opposing the war as not wanting their sons to go. The Mrs. Bixby of the famous Lincoln letter apparently was one (though research suggests she didn't have ANY sons die...
...be a very good topic. Not to mention the history of Alonzo Cushings brother. William Cushing, called "Lincoln's Commando" by some historians, became famous after he sank a confederate i...
...ictures, letters, reports, etc on units from their specific states. Also, there are a lot of good sites on Lincoln, which likely could give you some feedback since he was from Illinois. Do you know wh...
what if ?
by wage22@bigpond.com.au
...OGNITION AND DAMPEN MORALE
A SUCCESSFUL RAID IN 1863 COULD HELP TURN THE 1864 ELECTION AGAINST PRESEDENT LINCOLN AND HIS REPUBLICAN PARTY AND BRING PEACE-PARTY DEMOCRATS INTO POWER
THERE WOULD BE...
...p. Other sites to visit in the area~Mount Vernon(George Washingtons home) plantation.~ Fords Theater were Lincoln was assassinated (They still show plays there).~ A visit to the Smithsonian is awesom...
...ia's 23rd Infantry Regiment, for the Union. I'm fighting for the Union and for President Abraham Lincoln. There is no other man I would fight for than him the great one. Ha. I don't eve...
... december at fredericksburg va and near murfreesboro tn.for now the armies jockey for positions 1863-pres lincoln takes a train north to gettysburg tommorow he will say a few words on the dedication ...
...ecruited by the federal government during the war.
It was easier (and less politically damaging for the lincoln administration)to hire foreign mercenaries than it was to conscript American voters a...
...ng the guiding hand of the white colonial master. Many of the north's leaders had no love for blacks. Lincoln clearly expressed his belief that whites and blacks could not coexist. Does this inva...
...their primary use was arial reconnaissance. Thaddeus Lowe presented his idea for the balloons to President Lincoln and the civilian balloon Corps was made. Also, in 1861 he managed to telegraph Confed...
1861-robt e. lee in command of wva confederates at big sewell mtn. trying to stop usa advances in that part of va. ormsby m. mitchel,the famous star gazer for the union commands now the dept.of the oh...
...rassing. The only other CW "true" fiction I can recommend as readable is Gore Vidal's "Lincoln", but again only as a narrative, not as a view of reali...
...e what-if? scenarios. A good example would be, what if the South had won the Battle of Sharpsburg... then Lincoln would not have had a platform to five his emancipation proclamation and perhaps the B...
I've been looking for this letter Sherman wrote to the mayor of Atlanta just before he bombarded the city. I found it and I'm posting it without comment, except to note that in it, you will ...
i totaly disagree with macreveries statement that lincoln started the civilwar.the south started the war.lets face it the right side won thenorth.i know they are still people in the usa that think sla...
how bout "the tycoon" for lincoln."snapping turtle"for geo meade,wasnt thomas called old slow trot at one point.how bout rock benning,ole straight ap stewart, or duke wayne he played cw officers on sc...
... look. How many Southern commanders would have loved to have seen this image during the Civil War? Abraham Lincoln with a noose around his neck. :-)...
... north ridgeville,oh.the civil wr is the most interresting and greatest period in american history.abraham lincoln is to me the greatest president and american in history.there are many other great me...
...that the Civil War is the most interesting period of American History. I personally share your belief that Lincoln is our greatest President and one of the greatest Americans...period. Of course this ...
...another cw site]end up at fords theater,listen to park ranger,then area school kids got up on stage recite lincolns speeches[get address,2nd inaug]it was cool,interesting.at the end iwent up on stage ...
...r and peace, love and hate, intolerance and compassion. The whole CW was a clash of opposing ideals, which Lincoln understood very well....
Blueshawk....I know you're not a Lincoln admirer, but his plans for so-called reconstruction were MUCH more forgiving and conciliatory than what in fact happened. It was when those radical abolitionis...
...ne in 1937 or 38 where he goes off to war against his preacher fathers wishes and gets lectured by abraham lincoln himself when his mother writes to the president asking about her son since shes had n...
"Lincoln’s actions may well have been the last straw, or the direct trigger for the war, but root cause?" ole abe's actions certainly were the last straw. They were also certainly the root...
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