Abraham Lincoln's tenure as the 16th president of the United States began on March 4, 1861, and ended upon his death on April 15, 1865, 42 days into his second term. Lincoln, the first Republican pres
"The Rail Candidate", a Currier and Ives illustration depicting Abraham Lincoln's 1860 presidential candidacy held up by the slavery issue with a slave on the left and party organization on the right.
The March 4, 1861, inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in front of the U.S. Capitol Building
Headlines on the day of Lincoln's inauguration portended hostilities with the Confederacy, Fort Sumter being attacked less than six weeks later.
First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, showing Lincoln and several members of his cabinet in 1864
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Edwin McMasters Stanton was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 27th United States secretary of war under U.S. president Abraham Lincoln during most of the American Civil War. Stanton'
Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
…handling the War Department, Lincoln tactfully removed Cameron in January 1862 by appointing him as the ambassador to Russia. Cameron was replaced by Edwin Stanton, a staunchly Unionist pro-business conservative Democrat who moved toward the Radical Republican faction. Stanton worked more often and more closely…
Photograph c. 1866–1869
Stanton's birthplace in Steubenville, Ohio
Stanton's home in Cadiz, Ohio
Stanton with his son Edwin Lamson c. 1852–1855