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"Idaho Remembers Lincoln" will take place at the Lincoln "Emancipator" statue on the Capitol Mall on April 15 2015 beginning at noon (MDT)

Posted by K.C. Piccard on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, In : Civil War 150th Anniversary event

Idaho was created when President Abraham Lincoln established Idaho Territory on March 4, 1863; and its citizens have been commemorating 150th Anniversaries connected to the national observance of the Civil War Sesquicentennial which is ending in April 2015. Unfortunately, this four year period of remembrance also includes the tragic assassination of President Lincoln on April 14, 1865...a few short weeks after his Second Inauguration on March 4, 1865 and after the surrender of Confederate...