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Lincoln Signs Proclamation Admitting New State of West Virginia

April 20, 2013 Mathew W. Lively 1

On April 20, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation, effective in sixty days, admitting West Virginia into the Union as the 35th state. Formation of the state, however, had required some creative legal maneuvering […]

Charles A. Leale – The First Doctor to Aid Lincoln Following the Assassination

April 14, 2013 Mathew W. Lively 3

In May 2012, a researcher working for The Papers of Abraham Lincoln project discovered a document in the National Archives many historians knew existed but had never found. It was the initial account of army […]