On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged ... and in May 1863 the War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops.
he switched parties becoming the first Republican president of the United States. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell ...
As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln ... all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary ...