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Pvt. James C. Loyd disappeared during a nighttime firefight days after the Allied Forces landed near Anzio, Italy, in 1944.
KEARNEY - About 1 million people viewed President Abraham Lincoln's body between his death April 15, 1865, in Washington, D.C., and his burial May 4, 1865, in Springfield, Ill.
It’s not my first time at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum ... of humour made a real impact on me. When the museum opened [in 2005], the presence of the figures, the log ...
The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...
The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln ...
The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for ...
These yellowing relics offer a glimpse into the legendary life of President Abraham Lincoln. Once a part of ... while public museums struggle to stay open and maintain their collections for ...
The gloves were the top-selling items at the auction, bringing in $1.52 million. One of two handkerchiefs Lincoln had with him April 14, 1865, the night he was shot, went for $826,000.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, which led to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, slicing travel time across the continent ...
“I cannot think of another president, apart from Abraham Lincoln, who faced a civil war from the moment he was sworn into office, who has had a more consequential, inspiring, and important first ...
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