The contrast between JEFFERSON DAVIS' speeches and his written ... in his composition than the much-reviled "railsplitter," ABRAHAM LINCOLN. In fact, there has been nothing more remarkable in ...

Abraham Lincoln, born poor and largely self ... more than “a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes”). Jefferson Davis was raised on a plantation and educated at Transylvania ...

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Corbis Abraham Lincoln, at Antietam in 1862 with security guard Allan Pinkerton (left) and Maj. Gen. John McClernand, has far less military experience than Jefferson Davis, having served only as a ...

Nigel Hamilton is one of America’s least conventional and most interesting historians. His landmark, three-volume study of ...

Jefferson Davis, the head of the Confederacy, once lived, had become grafted upon another cabin which is said to be the one in which Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator, was born. The scene of ...

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the ... Lincoln trampling the constitution and armed with two swords; Jefferson Davis or Uncle Sam lies beaten in the background Excerpt from book ...

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was one of the biggest turning ... or both approved an attempt to assassinate Jefferson Davis, the Confederate President. Because he was the mastermind of ...

Whatever Burr’s intentions, President Thomas Jefferson ... In the immediate aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Davis was a wanted man. The new president, Andrew Johnson, issued ...

Jefferson Davis, Mr. Hamilton argues, was much better prepared for wartime leadership than Abraham Lincoln, and up through his decision to allow Robert E. Lee to invade the North in what became ...