Major Anderson was running out of food in Fort Summers and requested for more supplies. ... Lincoln's eleven-year-old son, William died in 1862. ... Andrew Johnson was sworn in a president hours after Lincoln died. ... In 1871 her youngest son Thomas died of tuberculosis. ... She died in Springfield on 1882. ...
This admiration lead to his invitation to the Catholic Second Plenary Council in Baltimore, which among other things commemorated the Catholic soldiers who died on both sides in the Civil War. ... With the peaceful ending of the Trent affair, those tensions died down and Lincoln's assassination almost four years later would have been pointless. ... Before, in the summer of '64, Booth had ideas of going beyond the Confederate mission of spy and sabotage and wanted to kidnap Lincoln and keep him as hostage for the return of all southern POWs. ...
During the Civil War, Charles Summer pushed for the emancipation of the slaves and introduced the 13th Amendment to the Senate in 1864. ... A reliable friend of blacks, who had defended runaway slaves in court without fee and before dying, requested a burial in a black cemetery. ...
Charles Sumner was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 6, 1811 to the proud parents of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pinckney Sumner. Sumner was very silent about his life growing up and genealogy. Mrs. Sumner's grandfather was an extensive landholder and a surveyor of Hanover. In Plymouth County, ...
Because the journey was so long and disease was easily contracted, about 10 to 20 percent died on the way to the Americas-.2 But it was soon realized that slavery is thoroughly inhuman and insult of human being. ... In the summer of 1862 the Confiscation Act had authorized the President to use blacks in any way he saw fit, and there had been some limited use of them in noncombat activities. ...
