Lincoln says, keep fighting!
On February 1, 1865, President Lincoln sent this telegram to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at City Point, Virginia. It encouraged Grant to continue fighting vigorously....
Lincoln sees the end of the war
On June 15, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln wired Union Gen. Ulysses Grant approving a plan for a flanking movement against Petersburg, Virginia, that Grant had...
Lincoln visits with his generals
After the Civil War battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln was anxious for Major General George B. McClellan to pursue Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s...
Lincoln’s difficult general
Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan snubbed and acted insubordinately toward President Lincoln on numerous occasions. Lincoln suffered the insults as long as McClellan...
Making amends
This anonymous letter to the Secretary of the Treasury included one dollar for an extra loaf of bread taken 36 years earlier while serving in the army during the...
Map of the battle of Fredericksburg and the Rappahannock River
This map details Union and Confederate army positions around the Virginia city of Fredericksburg in December 1862. Sitting on the south bank of the Rappahannock...
Marching to a different drummer
Taylor, a drummer boy for the 78th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, was photographed near the end of the Civil War. The 78th was organized in April 1864 and...