However loud his critics shouted their disapproval,
Abraham Lincoln would neither deprive them of free speech nor change his opinions.
Length: 59 words
American Civil War
A Letter to the President
Two years into America’s Civil War, cotton workers in Manchester defied
current opinion among politicians and the press, and pledged their support to the Union.
Length: 58 words
American Civil War
Sublime Christian Heroism
In replying to a letter of support from Manchester’s cotton workers,
US President Lincoln showed how deeply touched he had been.
Length: 58 words
American Civil War
John Brown of Osawatomie
Shortly before the American Civil War, an attack by pro-slavery
militants on the city of Lawrence prompted John Brown to try to clean up Kansas.
Length: 117 words
American Civil War
The Gettysburg Address
Following a decisive victory in the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln urged
his supporters to make sure that liberty’s advantage was not squandered.
Length: 112 words
American Civil War
The Battle of Gettysburg
Two years into the American Civil War, the Union army responded to
a dispiriting defeat at Chancellorsville with a decisive and historic victory at Gettysburg.