Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield ... Lincoln during Civil War Trying to keep Kentucky in the Union Lincoln spoke from the balcony ...

IDAHO FALLS – Abraham Lincoln ... propelled the country into Civil War in 1861. Although history records that the Civil War ...

Winik chronicles Abraham Lincoln's evolution as a politician and as someone who “was careful never to step too far ahead of prevailing opinion.” But “1861” is one of the few Civil War ...

LAKE CITY — A bronze tablet mounted on red granite will commemorate Abraham Lincoln's 1861 visit to Lake City ... and at the same time the Civil War was starting to unfold.

More on the unsuccessful plot to kill Lincoln: http://j.mp/VnSZ9g During his inauguration tour in 1861, the president's life was threatened in the city of Baltimore ...

Between 1861 and 1865 ... gained power, and then Abraham Lincoln was elected president, which worried the Southern states. The Civil War ended in 1865 with the defeat of the Confederacy and ...

The political intrigue leading up to 1861 rivals the battlefield action readers come to expect from many Civil War histories ... Winik chronicles Abraham Lincoln's evolution as a politician ...

Winik chronicles Abraham Lincoln’s evolution as a politician and as someone who “was careful never to step too far ahead of prevailing opinion.” But “1861” is one of the few Civil War ...