On May 24, 1861, Elmer E. Ellsworth, a 24-year-old Army colonel and close friend of President Abraham Lincoln, became the first Union officer killed during the Civil War. According to the 2003 spring/summer edition of Washington History magazine, Ellsworth, of the New York Zouaves Regiment, was shot and killed when he removed a Confederate flag [...]
Today, city services have ground to a halt in celebration of Emancipation Day. If finally correcting a longstanding evil in Washington D.C. with which he and most other American leaders had remained complicit can be considered noble, Abe Lincoln bagged when he signed the D.C. Emancipation Act.
But the act also provided [...]
On March 17, 1865, two Confederate sympathizers, John Wilkes Booth and John Surratt, were positioned near the intersection of what is today 7th Street NW and Georgia and Florida avenues, hoping to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln, who had been expected to visit Campbell General Hospital, one of the city's three dozen Civil War military hospitals. [...]
The District is bracing for yet another gathering of Tea Party activists, seemingly furious about the very existence of the federal government and complaining about "taxation without representation." (Though, honestly, we in D.C. know from taxation without representation, and none of these grouches from states with two senators and voting House members really impress City [...]
Welcome to the end of the week. If the fact that it's Friday isn't reason enough, excuses abound to get plastered today: It's Emancipation Day! And Day-After-Tax-Day!
Wait, you ask: What's Emancipation Day? Today in 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act, a precursor to the Emancipation Proclamation that freed roughly 3,100 slaves in D.C. [...]
Abe Lincoln hasn't been this hot since his body went cold.
Lincoln turned 200 this month. The new president idolizes him. Heck, his memorial just hosted one of the biggest rock concerts in U.S. history.
A crowd of kids from Hearst Elementary were among those making the pilgrimage today to Lincoln’s summer cottage in Petworth, the newly [...]
Sharing a bicentennial with Abraham Lincoln is a bit like celebrating one's birthday on Christmas. Unless you're Charles Darwin, that is, in which case the playing field is much more level. Sure, Newsweek gives Lincoln precedence—not entirely surprising for an American publication—but rankings like that are totally beside the point when you're talking [...]
In it, we'll learn that John Wilkes Booth was concocted by a Baltimore Sun reporter angling for a Pulitzer.
In all seriousness, it does sound pretty awesome. I'm hoping this gets used for the promotional poster.
