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Old Times Not Forgotten: Civil War at 150
By not in system - AOL NewsA hush fell over the crowd filling the elegant hall in downtown Richmond, Va. The vote was about to be announced, and a young staffer of the Museum of the Confederacy balanced his laptop across his knees, poised to get out the news as soon as it was official. Who would be chosen "Person of the Year, 1861"? Five historians had made impassioned nominations, and the audience would now decide. Most anywhere else, the choice would be obvious. Who but Abraham Lincoln? But this was a vote in the capital of the rebellion that Lincoln put down, sponsored by a museum dedicated to his adversary. How ...
Abraham Lincoln's 1861 Inauguration 150th Anniversary [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL NewsOn March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th President of the United States. Take a look back at this historic event 150 years later. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=988920&pid=988919&uts=1299194985 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf AOL News Photo - 26517 Friday marks 150 years since Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th ...
Abraham Lincoln Inauguration Pictures
By not in system - AOL Newshttp://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=988920&pid=988919&uts=1299194985 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf AOL News Photo - 26517 Friday marks 150 years since Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States. On March 4, 1861, Lincoln took his oath of office and gave his inaugural address in which he promised not to interfere with the institution of slavery and emphasized that the ...
Abraham Lincoln Inauguration: Discoveries Gallery [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL NewsIt's been 150 years since the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Take a look at the items and photos related to Lincoln that have been discovered during those years. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=988858&pid=988857&uts=1299188174 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf Lincoln Discoveries A rare President Abraham ...
Presidents Day: How George Washington and Abe Lincoln Got Screwed Out of Their Own Holidays
By David Knowles - AOL NewsHappy birthdays! This year, the holiday informally recognized as Presidents Day falls on Monday, Feb. 21. Commemorating the birthdays of two of the nation's most beloved presidents -- George Washington and Abraham Lincoln -- the holiday was not always a joint celebration. Surge Desk takes a look at the birth of this mash-up federal day off. George Washington gets his day The father of our country was so beloved by American citizens that his birthday, Feb. 22, was celebrated across the land long before it actually became an official holiday. Congress proclaimed that date as "Washington's ...
Historian Denies Tampering With Lincoln Document
By not in system - AOL NewsMcLEAN, Va. - Colleagues of a Virginia historian accused of altering a presidential pardon signed by Abraham Lincoln to make it appear he had made a major discovery say he betrayed the trust that had been placed in him. The accused historian - Thomas P. Lowry, 78, of Woodbridge - denied Tuesday that he actually tampered with the document despite a written confession he gave to the National Archives earlier this month. The National Archives announced on Monday that Lowry used a fountain pen with special ink to change the date on a presidential pardon issued by Lincoln to a Union army deserter ...
Researcher Faked Date on Lincoln Document, Officials Say
By not in system - AOL NewsA Virginia man has confessed to trying to rewrite history by altering a date on a document penned by Abraham Lincoln -- a move that enhanced his own reputation as a scholar, the National Archives said today. Longtime Lincoln researcher Thomas Lowry, of Woodbridge, Va., admitted that he changed the date on a presidential pardon issued to Patrick Murphy, a Union Army soldier who was court-martialed for desertion during the Civil War, said David S. Ferriero, archivist of the United States. Lowry altered the date on the document from April 14, 1864, to April 14, 1865 -- the day John Wilkes ...
US Sailor Feared Overboard in Gulf of Oman
By not in system - AOL NewsU.S. and British forces were searching in the Gulf of Oman for an American sailor missing from a U.S. ship and believed to have gone overboard. U.S. Navy A sailor is missing and believed to have gone overboard from the USS Halsey, shown sailing in a formation with a French aircraft carrier during a photo exercise. The sailor on the guided-missile destroyer Halsey failed to report for watch today at 5:44 p.m. local time, the U.S. Navy said. "The sailor didn't show up at their duty station in the time they were supposed to," Lt. Frederick Martin, a spokesman for the 5th Fleet, told ...
Did Abe Lincoln's Assassin Escape? DNA May Solve Mystery
By David Lohr - AOL NewsDescendants of John Wilkes Booth have agreed to exhume his brother's body for DNA testing in an attempt to determine whether the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln escaped capture and eluded justice, as the family has been told. "I'm absolutely in favor of exhuming Edwin," Joanne Hulme, a Booth family historian, told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "Let's have the truth and put this thing to rest." Library of Congress The descendants of John Wilkes Booth hope to answer the question of whether he escaped after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Booth, an actor from ...
The Gettysburg Address Turns 147 [VIDEO]
By J. Richard - AOL News(Nov. 19) -- Seven score and seven years ago today, a very famous speech was delivered. Today marks the 147th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. On Nov. 19, 1863, Lincoln made his remarks at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa. Though just 272 words long, the short-and-sweet speech has become one of the most famous orations in world history. And the speech's opening lines -- "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created ...
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