Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abraham Lincoln (in bronze) had visitors in Manhattan's soapbox center, Union Square: a delegation from the National Republican Club, which deposited a wreath...
Virginia was a reluctant seceder. The state did not leave the Union until Fort Sumter was fired on and President Lincoln called for volunteers. In the first flush of secession and war optimism, in the almost carefree mood of Richmond, any Confederate could take care of ten Yankees. The deceptive mood was heightened by the victory at Bull Run. General McClellan's guns, as he inched up the Peninsula less than a year later, sounded the first grim note...
...LINCOLN'S CAMERA MAN - Roy Meredith-Scrlbner...
Brady had found his war work. Soon President Lincoln gave him a nodded permission to accompany the Union armies even on the battlefields. Soon Brady and his "Whatizzit," the wagon that carried his camera and supplies, were familiar features of the Civil War. Brady's equipment was heavy and he was usually forced to make his pictures after the fighting was over. But he was under fire at Bull Run and Petersburg, was nearly killed at Fredericksburg. The result was a magnificent pictorial record of war (the first and perhaps the best ever made...
Hijacking? On reading Ben Fairless' reply, Phil Murray waxed loquacious. He called newsmen to the green-paneled conference room of C.I.O.'s Washington headquarters-where his portrait hangs alongside those of Jefferson and Lincoln-and issued a burning statement...