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Finally the two were reconciled, and on November 4, 1842, they married. Lincoln and his son. Abraham Lincoln with his son Tad, 1864. Four children, all boys, were born to the Lincolns. Edward Baker was nearly 4 years old when he died, and William Wallace (“Willie”) was 11. Robert Todd, the eldest, was the only one of the children to survive ...
Abraham Lincoln meeting with General George B. McClellan (facing him at left) at McClellan's headquarters after the Battle of Antietam, October 1862; photograph by Alexander Gardner. (more) As a war leader, Lincoln employed the style that had served him as a politician—a description of himself, incidentally, that he was not ashamed to accept.
The Rise of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln embarked on a political career in the mid 1830s with his election to the Illinois state legislature. Lincoln idolized the Founding Fathers whose grand experiment in popular government sought liberty for all. Henry Clay of Kentucky became his political role model. Clay, like Lincoln, was born into a poor farm ...
Abraham Lincoln was born on Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin on his father's farm in what was at that time Hardin County (today Larue County) Kentucky. His parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. He had an older sister, Sarah. In 1816, when Abraham was 7 years old, his parents moved to Perry County (later part of Spencer ...
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.
The papers of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), lawyer, representative from Illinois, and sixteenth president of the United States, contain approximately 40,550 documents dating from 1774 to 1948, although most of the collection spans from the 1850s through Lincoln’s presidency (1861-1865). Roughly half of the collection, more than 20,000 documents, comprising 62,000 images, as well as ...
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. For many, Abraham Lincoln has gone down in history as something of a martyr for his country. That’s in part because of his assassination by John Wilkes Booth, which happened to occur on Good Friday —a connection that has been drawn time and again. But Lincoln had already begun to be mythicized during ...
