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George Bergner edited the "Telegraph" newspaper in the Pennsylvania state capital throughout the Civil War.

Pennsylvania newspaper editors registered strong opinions about Lincoln's legendary second inaugural address on March 4, 1865.

President-elect Abraham Lincoln spoke repeatedly to audiences in Pennsylvania as he crossed the state to attend his inauguration in 1861.

The Pennsylvania Daily Telegraph published an article from a Southern magazine threatening secession in the summer of 1860.

Veterans at Gettysburg used Alexander Stephens's infamous speech about slavery to argue that the Confederate cause was unjust and wrong.

In the decades after the Civil War, Pennsylvania veterans sought to keep Confederate monuments and memorials off the Gettysburg battlefield.

In 1868, the representative of Westmoreland County in Congress spoke out in favor of excluding Confederate war dead from national cemeteries

John Covode represented Westmoreland County in the House of Representatives. He launched the first presidential impeachment in US history.

More than 36,000 African American soldiers died during the Civil War, yet no national monument memorialized their sacrifice until 1998.

In September 1862, Confederate forces crossed the Potomac River and became a dangerous threat to Andrew Curtin's Pennsylvania.

George Washington Woodward ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Pennsylvania during the darkest year of the Civil War.

Pennsylvania's largest sports venue is named for a Civil War veteran who was wounded four times and lost a leg during his service.

Guest contributor EJ Murphy looks at the politics surrounding black voting rights in antebellum Northeastern Pennsylvania.

"Is it possible that we love our country less, and are we less worthy to be instructed by it than before we took up arms to defend it?"

Alexander Coffroth was featured in the 2012 film "Lincoln." This is a look at a real scandal that involved the Congressman in 1863.