It was April 24, 1865 – ten days since President Lincoln was assassinated – and his killer still remained at large. On the night of April 14, John Wilkes Booth had shot the president in the head, jumped on a horse, and slipped across the Potomac River undetected. He had disappeared into Maryland, a state that [...]
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The Murder of President Lincoln. Appeal to the Colored People!
Posted in Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, People, The American Civil War, Wars, tagged Assassination of President Lincoln, Booth manhunt, Edwin Stanton, John Wilkes Booth, Major W.S. Hancock on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Civil War: The High Price of Peace
Posted in The American Civil War, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Civil War statistics, the Civil War, the Confederacy map on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE PRICE OF THE CIVIL WAR
UNION
Soldiers 2,500,000-2,750,000
Soldiers wounded who survived 275,175
Soldiers who lost their lives 360,222
Civilians who lost their lives None
CONFEDERATE
Soldiers 750,000-1,250,000
Soldiers wounded who survived 102,703
Soldiers who lost their lives 258,000
Civilians who lost their lives 50,000
The total cost of the war was $20 billion (approximately $250 billion in today’s money), or five times the total expenditure of [...]
Abe & Elvis Whistling “Dixie”
Posted in Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, Elvis, People, The American Civil War, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Appomattox Court House, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate flag, Confederate rebels, Confederate surrender, Daniel Emmett, Dixie, Elvis Presley, General Ulysses S. Grant, Gideon Welles, Lee's surrender, Mary Lincoln, Mathew Brady photographs, Richmond, Robert E. Lee, Tad Lincoln, the Union, Virginia, War Between the States on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At daylight on April 10, 1865, the firing of 500 cannons spread the news throughout Washington, D.C., that the War Between the States was over and the Union preserved. The cannons were so loud that they broke windows on Lafayette Square, the neighborhood around the White House. (1) “Guns are firing, bells ringing, flags [...]
