Abraham Lincoln was eloquent in many settings, but perhaps none more than his Second Inaugural Address: “With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” Second
William Tecumseh Sherman was a Union general during the Civil War and is remembered as one of the most famous military leaders in US history. His calculated March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, then north into the Carolinas, brought the Confederate surrender and end of the Civil War, but his tactics remain
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T Washington Success Is To Be Measured Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author and orator. He also advised multiple
Major General William Rosencrans and the Union Army defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Stones River in 1863 one day after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Stones River had the highest percentage of casualties on both sides of the Civil War throughout all major battles. The battle itself was inconclusive, but the Union Army’s
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer. He would become America’s 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865. He is best known for holding together the fractured nation through the Civil War and passing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery. Lincoln is one of the most influential people in US
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