Beer Stories
Lincoln's bucket of beer; the Rhine River Beer Bridge; George Washington's craft brew; German immigrants' lager; beer can history; malt syrup pancakes; growlers; Norm from Cheers
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Brenda Elthon
1. Lincoln’s bucket of beer.
Saturday, July 4, 1863, may have been the best day of Lincoln’s presidency.
At 10:00 that morning, Confederate forces ceded the city of Vicksburg to General Ulysses S. Grant, ending his forty-seven-day siege of the vital Confederate river and rail transportation hub.
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