On this day in the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln fires a few test rounds using the new Spencer repeating carbine.
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August 18, 1863
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July 31, 1861
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On this day in the Civil War, President Lincoln promotes Ulysses S. Grant to General of volunteers.
Statue of Ulysses S. Grant
U.S. Capitol
July 27, 1861
Posted: July 27, 2016 in On this Day in the Civil WarTags: abraham lincoln, american civil war, american history, confederate, george mcclellan, irvin mcdowell, On this Day in the Civil War, the american civil war, the civil war, union
On this day in the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln turns over command of the Federal Army of the Potomac to General George McClellan.
General McClellan replaces General Irvin McDowell, who lost the First Battle of Bull Run.
General McDowell and Staff
(Photo Credit: Library of Congress)
June 8, 1864
Posted: June 8, 2016 in On this Day in the Civil WarTags: abraham lincoln, american civil war, american history, Andrew Johnson, confederate, On this Day in the Civil War, the american civil war, the civil war, union
On this day in the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is nominated for president by the National Union Convention. Andrew Johnson, a democrat from Tennessee, is nominated for vice-president.
Abraham Lincoln-Photo Credit: Library of Congress
Andrew Johnson-Photo Credit: Library of Congress
Memorial Day
Posted: May 30, 2016 in UncategorizedTags: abraham lincoln, freedom, gettysburg address, holidays, memorial day, sacrifice, the civil war
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Gettysburg Address
President Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War Book 