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3 days ago · William and Fanny Seward in 1861 Booth had assigned Lewis Powell to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward. On the night of the assassination, Seward was at his home on Lafayette Square , confined to bed and recovering from injuries sustained on April 5 from being thrown from his carriage.
1 day ago · The event takes place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 18 at the Schroeppel Historical Society, 486 Main St., Phoenix. The presentation will be led by Dr. Jeff Ludwig, director of education for the Seward House Museum in Auburn. Ludwig will discuss Seward’s beginnings in law and politics, how his career in New York State foreshadowed his national ...
9 hours ago · William McGurn. Walter Russell Mead. Peggy Noonan. Mary Anastasia O'Grady. Jason Riley. ... Photo: Seward House Museum. Historians generally treat Reconstruction as an era whose aspiration, drama ...
4 days ago · The first proclamation included all the Southern states except North Carolina and Virginia. The proclamation on April 27 placed those two under blockade. Abraham Lincoln to William Seward, Apr. 19, 27, 1861, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (ORN), 30 vols. (1894–1922), 5: 620–621.
5 days ago · Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh. By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
2 days ago · He had a small team of co-conspirators who were enlisted to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson (pictured) and Secretary of State William H. Seward at the same time Booth pulled the trigger ...
1 day ago · William H. Seward from New York was considered the front-runner, followed by Salmon P. Chase from Ohio, and Missouri's Edward Bates. Abraham Lincoln from Illinois, was lesser-known, and was not considered to have a good chance against Seward.
