On May 5th, 1864 Private Joseph P. Brainerd of Company L, 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment, was on patrol along the line of march of the Union Army of the Potomac as Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign got underway. The 1st Vermont Cavalry engaged the enemy, and Brainerd was wounded and captured, one of over [...]
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Located on 12 1/2 acres in the sprawling Oak Ridge Cemetery on the north side of Springfield, Illinois, the Abraham Lincoln Tomb is both the final resting place of, and an impressive memorial to, the 16th President of the United States. Dedicated in 1874, the exterior of the structure is brick covered with granite, with [...]
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March 4th, 1865 was rainy and wet in Washington D.C. It was also Inauguration Day for Abraham Lincoln’s second term as President of the United States. After nearly four long years of Civil War, the end was finally in sight, but the Confederacy had not surrendered. In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln called on the [...]
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