The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...
Once, Presidents were decent and financially responsible and honest men. No, really! But even they could have used a good ...
a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous Emancipation Proclamation by two years. Fremont, known as the ‘Pathfinder’ for his explorations of the West, was appointed ...