Grant in Virginia, near the end of the Civil War ... Why did he do that? Why did Abraham Lincoln pardon a turkey? In general, Lincoln was a big softie, especially when it came to his kids.

ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous ...

On April 14, 1865, itinerant actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater ... for what’s left of Richmond, Virginia, where he hopes to meet Confederate ...

A member of a famous acting family, and a fierce partisan of the Confederacy, Booth was the subject of a 12-day manhunt through Maryland and Virginia after he shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington ... "My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families — second families, perhaps I should say," wrote Lincoln during the 1860 ...