As the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination approaches, a massive online archive has gone live containing 99,525 documents related to the Civil War-era commander-in-chief.

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a joint digitization project sponsored by The University of Illinois and the Abraham Lincoln Association, is dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime. Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’ Theater in Washington, D.C.  on April 14, 1865.

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President Lincoln with Gen. George B. McClellan and group of officers at Antietam, Md.

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