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Jun 20, 2024 · Gettysburg Address, world-famous speech delivered by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication (November 19, 1863) of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of one of the decisive battles of the American Civil War (July 1-3, 1863).
Jun 18, 2024 · Emmett Till (born July 25, 1941, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died August 28, 1955, Money, Mississippi) was an African American teenager whose murder catalyzed the emerging civil rights movement. Till was born to working-class parents on the South Side of Chicago.
Jun 18, 2024 · Robert E. Lee (born January 19, 1807, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland county, Virginia, U.S.—died October 12, 1870, Lexington, Virginia) was a U.S. Army officer (1829–61), Confederate general (1861–65), college president (1865–70), and central figure in contending memory traditions of the American Civil War.
4 days ago · “Kumar fell on the escalator at the Civil Court station at around 6.30 pm. He was attended by a doctor deputed at the metro station and given first aid. He was then taken in an ambulance to the Sancheti hospital, which is nearest to that Metro station, where doctors declared him dead. He was 40 years old,” said a statement from the Pune metro.
1 day ago · A Harvest of Death: Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, photographed July 5 or July 6, 1863, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan Gettysburg National Cemetery, July 2003 John L. Burns, veteran of the War of 1812, civilian who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg with Union troops.
1 day ago · In total, the war left between 620,000 and 750,000 soldiers dead, along with an undetermined number of civilian casualties, making the Civil War the deadliest military conflict in American history. The technology and brutality of the Civil War foreshadowed the coming World Wars.
4 days ago · Background. Abandoned plan to kidnap Lincoln. Carte de visite of the actor John Wilkes Booth, c. 1865. John Wilkes Booth, born in Maryland into a family of prominent stage actors, had by the time of the assassination become a famous actor and national celebrity in his own right.
