Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

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The election of Lincoln prompted the South to begin to withdraw, or secede, from the Union. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln delivered a final plea to the South to remain, but to no avail. War ...

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their government. In his era, elite southern enslavers insisted that government had no ...

The birthday of Abraham Lincoln ... The powder keg of the Civil War began in 1861. Once the war was underway, Lincoln gave up on trying to reassure slave owners that they could keep their slaves ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains ... On April 12, 1861, barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort ...