Timeline of the Civil War -- Jessie benton Frémont, September 1861 -- Carl Schurz, spring and fall 1862 -- Beecher family, December 1862 and February 1865 -- Frederick Douglass, August 1863 and August 1864 -- Anna Dickinson, January and spring 1864 -- William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, March 1862, January 1863, and June 1864 -- Sojourner Truth, October 1864 -- Conclusion : Lincoln and his visitors