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Andrew Johnson Drunk at Lincoln’s Second Inaugural

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Thursday, February 25, 2010

Johnson did not feel well before the inauguration, so he downed three glasses of “medicinal” whiskey before entering the Senate chamber. As Johnson walked into the chamber, he was leaning on Hannibal Hamlin’s arm and appeared to be unsteady. Abraham Lincoln’s new vice-president was drunk on inauguration day.

Civil War Re-enactors Settle Battle

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Friday, January 8, 2010

A judge says it’s a draw between two Union and Confederate re-enactors who got into a tussle on the battlefield.