The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of civil war.

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“We present our readers in this issue the inaugural address of President Lincoln,” the Rochester City Post said in its March 16 edition. “It is sensible, straight-forward and ...

For me, the Lincoln Memorial tops the list. On one wall is inscribed the Gettysburg address. Tourists usually stand and read it. But on the opposite wall that tourists mostly ignore is his second ...

By the way, I erred in writing that Lincoln’s first inauguration was in January 1861. It was March 4. “Lincoln’s inauguration was in March, as were all other inaugurations between 1793 and 1933, when ...

Knopf, 438 pages, $35). Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865. In a meeting at ...

By the way, I erred in writing that Lincoln’s first inauguration was in January 1861. It was March 4. Pomona Public Library to close through August for construction W.C. Fields made crack about ...

The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln," and two acclaimed books on 19th-century baseball and American culture. Acorn's visit to Sudbury is made possible by a generous bequest from ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.