Charles edgar fritts biography of abraham lincoln

North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas followed over the following two months. Sibley dismissed another when proof surfaced exonerating the defendant. Eisenhower — John F. Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition now thought to be clinical depression. Lincoln supported the Corwin Amendment to the U. OCLC Representative for IL—7 — Jonathan Letterman ; Abraham Lincoln Stephen A.

He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but as dutiful as any participated in almost all votes and made speeches that toed the party line. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterward.

Lincoln refused to negotiate with the Confederacy as a coequal; his objective to end the fighting was not realized. By March , no leaders of the insurrection had proposed rejoining the

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Ford’s Theatre was not the only theatre in Washington, D.C. visited by President Lincoln and his family.  Here are some interesting facts about the National Theatre owned by Leonard Grover.

The rivalry between the Ford and Grover

There had been a friendly rivalry between Leonard Grover and John T. Ford ever since Ford opened his first theatre in Washington in 1861.  The huge increase in population in Washington D.C. during the Civil War allowed both theatres, and their owners, to prosper.  Still, the two men attempted to one up each other in their attempts to get a bigger piece of the pie.  After the burning of Ford’s old theatre, he rebuilt, creating a smaller, but far more luxurious and comfortable theatre.  This was at odds with Grover’s, whose theatre which was described as,  “an ice vault in winter, and a sweatbox in summer”.  Grover advertised his theatre as the capital’s only “Union” playhouse, highlighting John Ford’s