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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809- April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States of America. He served as President from March 4, 1861, until April 15, 1865 (he was re-elected in 1864). Lincoln's Vice-President was Andrew Johnson (1808-1875). Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky.
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Lincoln was the first President not born in one of the thirteen original colonies. Also, he was the first President from the Republican Party. Prior to his election as President, seven Southern states had seceded from the Union. In his inaugural address on March 4, 1861, Lincoln reached out to the South by telling them he had no intention of changing slavery as it existed; but he held firm to the ideal that the Union be forever preserved and indissoluble. Soon after this, the Southern states banded together in their own Confederate Union. They demanded that the North abandon its garrisons in Southern territories, specifically naming Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, since it held strategic importance at the harbor to the city.
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Most American school children were educated in rooms where photographs of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington looked down on them. However, few Americans have ever seen the photographs and wanted posters of the broader conspiracy members. John Wilkes Booth led this band of Confederate sympathizers who ... planned to kill Secretary of State Seward and Vice-President Andrew Johnson. Mary Surratt, John Surratt, Lewis Powell, David E. Herold, and George Atzerodt were among those eventually charged with participation in the conspiracy. John Surratt was eventually caught, tried and acquitted. As you will see, the others did not fare so well.
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Abraham Lincoln was a very honest person and because of this, he became president of the United States. He belonged to political parties, such as the Whigs and the Republicans. He was born on Feb. 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Ky.
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The Battle of Antietam, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, was not the conclusive Union victory President Lincoln had desperately hoped for. Still it was enough of a win for him to issue his preliminary emancipation proclamation, which stated that on January 1, 1863, all slaves in states still in rebellion would be free. Yet in the days immediately after the battle, Lincoln became distressed at General George B. McClellans failure to pursue Lees retreating army. In early October, Lincoln visited McClellan at his headquarters at Antietam to urge him personally to attack. This photograph of Lincoln with McClellan and his staff was one of several taken on October 3 and is a rare view of Lincoln at the front.
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Robert Todd Lincoln arrived too late to stop three seperate presidential assassinations.He met his father, President Abraham Lincoln, at the theatre after John Wilkes Booth had fired the shot. He went to a Washington train station to meet President Garfeild, arriving only minutes after he was shot. And, he traveled to Buffalo, New York to meet President Mckinly, but got there after the fatal shot had already been fired.
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