Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on Saturday, March 4, 1865, during his second inauguration as President of the United States.At a time when victory over secessionists in the American Civil War was within days and slavery in all of the U.S. was near an end, Lincoln did not speak of happiness, but of sadness.
English: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Read by Winston Tharp for LibriVox. Date: 4 March 1865 (text). 20 March 2015 (audio) Source:
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk down Pennsylvania Avenue enroute to the White House during the inaugural parade in Washington on Tuesday, January 20, 2009.
The second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States took place on Saturday, March 4, 1865, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 20th inauguration and marked the commencement of the second and final term of Abraham Lincoln as president and only term of Andrew Johnson as vice ...
Abraham Lincoln's first vice president was Hannibal Hamlin from Maine. However, when Lincoln's prospects in the 1864 United States presidential election appeared to be dimming, [1] Lincoln replaced Hamlin with Andrew Johnson, a slave-owning Southern Unionist who was the only member of the U.S. Senate from a secessionist state who stayed loyal to the federal government at the outbreak of the ...
One hundred sixty-three years after multiple Southern states seceded from the Union rather than accept a new president who was hostile to slavery, the origin of the Civil War is looming over ...
It is certainly true no one could possibly mistake President Trump’s “American carnage” rhetoric eight years ago with the high-minded speechifying of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ...
Lincoln's second inaugural address at the nearly completed U.S. Capitol on March 4, 1865 On March 4, 1865, Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address . In it, he deemed the war casualties to be God's will.