Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America

The country had for its allies the river Mississippi, which would not be divided, and the range of mountains which carried the stronghold of the free through Western Virginia an...

Produced by Nick Tomaiuolo, Instruction Librarian at the Central Connecticut State University Elihu Burritt Library. (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain...

Travelling in the dead of night to escape assassination, LINCOLN arrived at Washington nine days before his inauguration. The outgoing President, at the opening of the session o...

"To express gratitude to God, in the name of the people, for the preservation of the United States, is my first duty in addressing you. Our thoughts next revert to the death of...