Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis, center) consults with James Ashley (David Costible, left) and William Seward (David Strathairn, right) in Steven Spielberg's drama “Lincoln” from DreamWorks Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox.
This file appears in: James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment: Author of Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery Edited Newspaper on Portsmouth's Market Street
This file appears in: James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment: Author of Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery Edited Newspaper on Portsmouth's Market Street
James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment: Author of Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery Edited Newspaper on Portsmouth's Market Street
Before there was the Washington Hotel at Second and Market Streets, the residents of Portsmouth knew this as Micklethwaite Corner. It was on this block that James Ashley, the author of the Thirteenth…