The issue of new gunpowder cartridges for the Enfield rifle in February 1857.
Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on 4 March 1865. As Lincoln prepared to speak, the Civil War was drawing to a close. Newspapers were filled with reports of the armies of William T. Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant. As late as August 1864, neither Lincoln nor his Republican Party believed he could win reelection. Now Lincoln would be the first president inaugurated for a second term in thirty-two years. The crowd of thirty to forty thousand was greeted by an ongoing rain that produced ten inches of mud in the streets of Washington. Sharpshooters were on the rooftops surrounding the ceremony. Rumors abounded that Confederates might attempt to abduct or assassinate the president
Garrison was a huge advocate for the free emancipation of slaves and the overall abolition of slavery. “burning like a fire on the national conscience” refers to the idea that most of the nation knew slavery was wrong and effected the conscious minds of everyone living here and it lingered in the back of everyone’s mind similarly to a fire
It freed the slaves that were part of the usa. The confederates would not be affected unless they lost the war.
