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Civil War Casualties

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Saturday, April 24, 2010

The casualty totals in the Civil War can only be treated as estimates. The exact numbers cannot be known.

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.