On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, President Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months. Five volunteer companies from ...

Weeks after an assassin gunned down President Abraham Lincoln in a Washington, D.C., theater, a train pulled his body across ...

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army in the Civil War and a future president of the United States, and David G. Farragut, the Navy’s first admiral, were among the pallbearers who ...

Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to be killed by an assassin's bullet. A total of four presidents have been shot and killed while in office. Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the ...

Imagine living in Syracuse on April 15, 1865 and opening that morning’s edition of the city’s Daily Courier and Union newspaper. On page one of the four-page paper, editor W.W. Green had written a ...

On the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot, April 14, 1865, Associated Press correspondent Lawrence Gobright scrambled to report from the White House, the streets of the stricken capital, and ...

President Abraham Lincoln died from a gunshot wound to the head at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865.

On this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally shot the ...

One Hundred Fifty-Six Years Ago: It is difficult to imagine, even having lived through the last year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the manic week endured by the American people beginning on April 9, 1865.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play? Wednesday marks the sad anniversary of the April 14, 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, which the Associated Press covered in ...

"A special publication of The Library of America." Introduction -- Introduction of Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union (1860) / William Cullen Bryant -- From Live of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / William Dean ...