When Millard Fillmore became president in 1850, ... Perhaps the greatest credit we can give them is to note that the Civil War began in 1861 rather than in 1851 ...

Millard Fillmore assumed the presidency with ever-growing dissent over slavery. His presidency made the problem even worse. MILLARD Fillmore was born in Summerhill in the Finger Lakes region of New… ...

President Millard Fillmore is the namesake of Millard County and its county seat, ... Although he denounced secession he was critical of President Abraham Lincoln throughout the Civil War.

Remembering the sins of Millard Fillmore. ... Some years later, during the Civil War, a soldier from Busti encountered Williams in an army camp near Brandy Station, Va.

Bravo to Bill Regan for selecting Professor Carole Emberton, a prominent historian of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, as the UB speaker at the Millard Fillmore commemoration this year. As noted ...

Millard Fillmore United States Brandy named for the 13th ... which temporarily eased tensions between slave states and free states before the Civil War but also created the notorious Fugitive ...

Buffalo’s mid-19th century bigwig Millard Fillmore has his name on a street, hospital and high school in spite of his zeal for hunting down runaway slaves. He’s the sort of What to do with ...

Millard Fillmore won't be so ubiquitous around Buffalo anymore. The Buffalo Common Council approved to remove the 13th President of the United State's name from properties throughout the city on ...

Millard Fillmore died in Buffalo in 1874 at age 74, and his legacy as a less-than-one-term president whose policy decisions helped lead to the Civil War is well-known among scholars. But what ...

Fillmore was an abolitionist and just the third president who did not own slaves, Goller said, but he signed the act to try to stave off the Civil War and prevent the spread of slavery. "It didn't ...

A letter by Millard Fillmore in which the former president pondered whether the end of the Civil War might bring on “a war of races” sold for $60,500, 10 times more than the auction house ...