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Learn about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, from his early life to the Civil War, with facts, quotes, and many more resources.
Abraham Lincoln, (born Feb. 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Ky., U.S.—died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.), 16th president of the U.S. (1861–65). Born in a Kentucky log cabin, he moved to Indiana in 1816 and to Illinois in 1830. After working as a storekeeper, a rail-splitter, a postmaster, and a surveyor, he enlisted as a volunteer in the ...
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A list of some of the most important achievements of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. Combining his roles as statesman and commander in chief, Lincoln led the federal armies to victory in the American Civil War and along the way brought about the emancipation of slaves.
On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford's Theatre that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancée, Clara Harris. After the play was in progress, a figure with a drawn ...
A timeline of events in the life of Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president and one of the country’s greatest leaders. During the American Civil War Lincoln worked to preserve the Union. He became known as the Great Emancipator after his Emancipation Proclamation (1863) declared slaves in the Confederate states were free.
A plot hatched by John Wilkes Booth to kidnap President Lincoln is aborted when the president fails to make a scheduled trip to a soldiers' hospital. The possibility of political assassination increasingly enters the mind of the bitter and restless Booth.
