Richard H. Black of Loudoun County, who is not even sure there should be a statue of the 16th president anywhere in Virginia. The major objection is that Lincoln came to gloat over Richmond's fall.

Virginia. At the end of the Civil War, President Lincoln strolled through the streets of Richmond on April 4, 1865 where he witnessed firsthand the devastation of the fallen Confederate capital.

On this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally ...

Sawyer, an audience member. "My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families — second families, perhaps I should say," wrote Lincoln during the 1860 presidential campaign.

Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished actor, southern sympathizer, and likely spy before shooting President Lincoln in April 1865. The ninth of 10 ...

Noah Andre Trudeau described the process of researching his recent book on Abraham’s Lincoln ... at City Point and Richmond, Virginia, near the end of the Civil War in 1865.

Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, was opened Tuesday. Items inside included an 1865 edition of Harper’s Weekly magazine with an clear image of a figure weeping over Abraham Lincoln’s grave ...