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Oct 29, 2009 · Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught lawyer, legislator and vocal opponent of slavery, was elected 16th president of the United States in November 1860, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and again in 1864. His first inauguration, on March 4,1861, featured an unprecedented amount of security around the president-elect, spurred by the approaching onset of the U.S. Civil War.
The Civil War began weeks into Lincoln's presidency with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, a federal installation located within the boundaries of the Confederacy. Lincoln was called on to handle both the political and military aspects of the Civil War, facing challenges in both spheres.
Following the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ostensibly freeing all slaves in territories in rebellion against the United States. The document was symbolic of the nature of the conflict; however, Lincoln’s primary objective was the preservation of the Union.
The Wall Street Journal‘The Demon of Unrest’ Review: The Seeds of Civil War
Before the war he served as governor of South Carolina, and then as a U.S. senator from...monster has slipped into obscurity and is long overdue for revival as an almost theatrically evil ogre ...
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The forgotten history of Memorial Day
In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country. The holiday was Memorial ...
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The lower South had withdrawn from the Union and set up a rival government. The guns roared first at Fort Sumter, turning back Lincoln's relief expedition. Both sides called for troops, more Southern states seceded, and the nation plunged headlong into civil war.
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.
1 day ago · Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S.—died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the 16th president of the United States (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States.
