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1860s in the United States
Reconstruction AmendmentsThomas Nast's the 12th of January 1867 illustration for Harper's Weekly declared slavery dead with a single stroke of ink.
Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson was born in a two-room shack in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the 29th of December 1808. His parents Jacob and Mary were illiterate tavern…
James BuchananJames Buchanan Jr. entered the world on the 23rd of April 1791 inside a log cabin called Stony Batter near Cove Gap in the Allegheny Mountains of southern…
American Civil WarOn the 12th of April 1861, Confederate forces fired the first of 4,000 shells at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
New Mexico Territory in the American Civil WarThe New Mexico Territory organized itself in 1850, covering lands that now form the states of New Mexico and Arizona. For years, its boundaries remained…
Washington, D.C., in the American Civil WarPresident Abraham Lincoln stood beneath the unfinished dome of the United States Capitol on the 4th of March 1861. The city felt like a small town that was…