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April 15th 1865- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Importance: Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States and he was the first President to be assassinated. Many believed the reason for his assassination was his willingness to free the slaves and defy what the Confederate States wanted. President Lincoln was assassinated while he watched a play at ford’s theater and died early the next morning. The Vice president Andrew Johnson was too be assassinated in his hotel room…

Mary Todd Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln’s wife, would often write letters to the President who was located in Washington D.C. at the time. He was a busy man, of course, dealing his role in the government. During a time in 1862, Mary wrote him about many different things, which included topics that were both political and personal. This letter written to him in November of 1862 offers insight to not only their relationship as husband and wife, but as the President and the First Lady. As a…

Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth president of the United States, was a specimen to say the least. He was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During his military career, he was entrusted with the task of leading all U.S. armies in 1864, and he would relentlessly pursue the enemy during the Civil War, which was the key to their victory. In 1869, at age 46, Grant would become the youngest president theretofore. He most certainly influenced the society at the time, despite some of…

The political history of the United States from Reconstruction to the 1920 was completely outrageous. After the Civil War ended, 1863, and as President Abraham Lincoln took the responsibility to restore the south he was assassinated. Andrew Johnson took over and the animosity between Andrew Johnson and Congress guarantee that the Reconstruction as President Lincoln could have said, would be unsuccessful. The election of 1876 left the Southern, United States worst than it was before leaving the…

Chester Alan Arthur became the 21st President of the United States in 1881 and served a four-year term up until 1885. Arthur’s presidency is often overlooked and his reputation was neither good nor bad. Although he was an accidental president and in a time of distrust in the political system, Arthur surpassed expectations when he calmed the nation and helped end the corrupt political system that brought him to power. Chester Arthur was born on October 5, 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont to…

David Crockett was clearly an outstanding frontiersman, a successful Tennessee politician, and a colorful congressman, but these attributes alone would not have earned him lasting fame. Davy Crockett was one of the most celebrated and mythologized figures in American history. David Crockett was born in 1786 to a pioneer family living on the Nolichucky River in east Tennessee. Davy Crockett was the fifth of nine children born to parents John and Rebecca (Hawkins) Crockett. Crockett's father…

Ambrose Burnside was born near Liberty, Indiana, on May 23, 1824. He was the son of a court clerk and farmer, but had dreams of being in the army. In 1843 Burnside began his journey by receiving an appointment to west point, a United States Military Academy. To say he had a hard time is an understatement. After nearly being expelled several times, he ultimately graduated in 1847 at the middle of his class - 18th out of 38 students. Burnside began his career in the Army as a Brevet Second…

leading ultimately to his appointed spot as General-in-Chief of the Union armies. The armies in the Union have Major General Ulysses S. Grant, and in the Confederate have Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton. John C. Pemberton began his service as a commander for the department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Texas. He had rapid promotions, and was made a lieutenant in 1862. Ulysses S. Grant volunteered his military services, and he was initially denied by his appointments. Then after a…

Few pairings of presidents would seem to differ more than that of Abraham Lincoln and Richard Nixon. Abraham Lincoln is memorialized as one the greatest presidents the United States has ever had. He led the nation through the bloodiest war in history and ultimately saved the perfect union the country was founded on. In sharp contrast, Richard Nixon is infamous for his Watergate Scandal, in which he lied to America. While Nixon also did much good for the country, he is remembered by the tragedy…

He was born February 24, 1817 in Hamden, Connecticut. His middle name is Morris. At the age of four he became an orphan. 1836 he was nineteen and joined Whitman-Spaulding missionary party. He then told them he wanted to be his own man. He was a mountain man during the very last years of fur trade who built Fort Buenaventura. In 1839 he married Pomona who is the daughter of the Ute chief Pe-teet-neet. By 1842 Miles and Pomona had two children. They named them William Miles and Mary Eliza.…