Presidential Participation
President Abraham Lincoln is shown with famed military intelligence agent Allan Pinkerton (left), who is credited with founding the Secret Service, and Major General John A. McClernand on October 3, 1862.
Presidential Participation
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Post Civil-War
After the Civil War, freed slaves mostly populated the American West in search of a better future and an escape from their past in a place where the entrenched and rigid biases of the East had less of an impact on their lives.
Post Civil War
