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On November 19, 1863 ... President Abraham Lincoln offered a short but seminal vision of the past and promise of the United ...
On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, Colonel Harrison Jeffords ... was the first man in his county to answer Lincoln’s call for volunteers. Before Gettysburg, Colvill’s regiment held the dubious ...
Students in Charles Taronis’ class at Pottsville High School got a living history lesson recently on a tour of Gettysburg ...
The episode closes with the dedication in November of a new Union cemetery at Gettysburg, where Abraham Lincoln struggles to put into words what is happening to his people.
One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history -- was the battle of Gettysburg. During the three days of July ... humiliated Abraham Lincoln, and ...
click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed that slaves should be emancipated, advocating a program in which they would ...
That’s where Penelope was when the Battle of Gettysburg raged through the streets in July of 1863, and that’s where she was when President Abraham Lincoln passed by on his way to deliver his ...
President Abraham Lincoln, with officers ... Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania in the Gettysburg campaign; and Jubal Early's raid to the outskirts of Washington in July 1864. Each time his generals ...
Abraham Lincoln ... at the state capitol in Lincoln in 1939 than were some of those straining to hear them on the outskirts of the audience at Gettysburg in 1863. The Massachusetts statesman ...
It was here that Confederate troops clashed with Union soldiers for three days in July 1863 ... on Nov. 19, 1863 and is where former President Abraham Lincoln gave his iconic "Gettysburg Address." ...
Paranoid about losing their majority status and the power it confers, white Americans keep backing Trump’s racist ...
Considered the turning point of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was also the bloodiest, amassing an estimated 51,000 casualties. The three-day conflict took place in July 1863 at what is ...