Brayton Ives was president of Northern Pacific Railway from 1893 to 1896 and was president of the New York Stock Exchange and the Western National Bank of New York. He also served as an officer in the
The Union is a term used to refer to the federal government and loyal states of the United States during the American Civil War. Its military forces and civilian population resisted the purported sece
The Union had large advantages in men and resources at the start of the war, and the ratio grew steadily in its favor as the war progressed. In the chart, "cauc men" means white men (Caucasian).[image reference needed]
Lincoln met with his Cabinet for the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation draft on July 22, 1862.
An anti-Lincoln Copperhead Democrats pamphlet from 1864
Union soldiers on Mason's Island, later renamed Theodore Roosevelt Island, on the Potomac River in 1861