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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.
West Virginia Becomes a State
By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Monday, November 30, 2009
Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861 to become part of the Confederate States of America. While the people of Virginia east of the Allegheny Mountains were pleased with the state’s secession, the Virginians who lived west of the Alleghenies, were not pleased to secede from the Union.