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) | Pontoon and transports |
) | Battlefield of Fredericksburg
The Fredericksburg Campaign took place during November and December of 1862. |
) | Part of Grant's lines, Petersburg, VA |
) | View of Gettysburg, PA, 1863 |
) | Regiment marching down Gettysburg street |
) | View of Fredericksburg, VA |
) | Horace Greeley in foreground in winter Camp scene
Horace Greeley (1811-1872) Editor and politician Greeley was a considerable influence during the Civil War era. He founded the New York Tribune in 1841 which became a powerful voice for organized labor and an opponent of slavery. After the war he was one of the signers of Jefferson Davis' bail, an act which cost his paper almost half its subscribers. |
) | Deck of Monitor on James River, VA
Monitor is a generic term for a shallow-draught warship mounting one or two large guns. The name came from the inventor John Ericssson. The word is from the Latin monere, to warn or advise. |
) | Soldiers in camp |
) | President Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th President of the United States. Lincoln was born in Kentucky and was raised there and in Indiana. He served in the Illinois legislature and was admitted to the bar in 1836. He served in Congress from 1847 to 1849, where he opposed the war with Mexico. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation following the Union victory at Antietam. His Second Inaugural Address expressed his hope for reconciliation between the North and South. Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington while watching the play "Our American Cousin". |
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