Tag Archive for ‘lincoln’
“We are not enemies but friends.”
“That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad of any pretext to do it I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them. To those, however, who really love the Union may I [...]
“Would you like one term or two?”
More than a few presidents who desired a second term were not returned to office. What keeps single-term Presidents from earning those added 1,461 days in office? And what can the past say about President Obama’s future?
Today in History: The Birthday of the Confederacy
The Confederacy was officially born on February 4, 1861 when six breakaway states created the Confederate States of America. What was different about the Confederate Constitution?
Today in History: Don’t Know Much About® New York’s Bloody Draft Riots
On July 13, 1863, New York City exploded in a four-day long murderous riot, still considered one of the deadliest urban riots in American history. The cause of the riots–violent opposition to the Civil War draft law.
Today in History-Shiloh: “The slaughter on both sides is immense.”
In the Bible, “Shiloh” meant “place of peace.”
That word took a whole new terrible meaning on April 7, 1862, when Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, near Corinth.
