President Andrew Johnson, having assumed the presidency after Lincoln’s assassination ... over” the South “three or four times before the war entirely ended.” The anomalies multiplied.

I hope this is the last time any of us will feel compelled to write about the mangling of Civil War history by a Republican ... during these months, both before and after the presidential election ...

Before they were witnesses ... with no known physical cause. Famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady took this portrait of Clara Harris after Lincoln's assassination. The image would later ...

but rather Lincoln’s second inaugural address. Delivered after his unexpected reelection and shortly before the end of the Civil War, it is universally regarded as one of the most important ...

Robinette, a hotelier in Virgina before the Civil War, was hired by the Union ... "Pardon for unexecuted part of punishment. A. Lincoln. Sep. 1. 1864." After a month in Florida, Robinette returned ...

Seven southern states seceded from the Union after Lincoln’s election but before he took office. The war formally began about a month after Lincoln was sworn in.

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...