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Abraham Lincoln
Birth: 2-12-1809
Death: 4-15-1865
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Lincoln, Mary (MTL)
Biography
Politician, lawyer, statesman, and the 16th president of the United States of America. Lincoln is credited for leading the United States through its civil war and successfully preserving the union, thus paving the way for abolition throughout the United States of America.
Taken from whitehouse.gov:
As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.
The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.
Letter References
Letter from Anna Wharton Seward to Frances Miller Seward, March 31, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 1, 1862
Fragment by Frances Miller Seward
Letter from Frederick William Seward to Frances Miller Seward, June 5, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, January 19, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, February 16, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, December 21, 1861
Letter from Charles Sumner to William Henry Seward, October 20, 1864
Letter from William Henry Seward to William Henry Seward, Jr., November 14, 1866
Letter from George Washington Seward to Frances Miller Seward, March 12, 1861
Letter from John Carlin to William Henry Seward, February, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, March 12,
1862
Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, March 14, 1863
Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to Lazatte Miller Worden, January 23, 1863
Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, November 19, 1862
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, February 20, 1862
Letter from George Washington Seward to Frances Miller Seward, December 12, 1861
Letter from Frederick William Seward to Frances Miller Seward, October 20, 1861
Letter from Frederick William Seward to Frances Miller Seward, October 7,
1861
Letter from William Henry Seward, Jr. to Janet Watson Seward, March 6, 1861
Letter from William Henry Seward, Jr. to Janet Watson Seward, March 4, 1861
Letter from John Carlin to Frederick William Seward, November 30, 1864
Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to Frances Miller Seward, Feburary 11, 1864
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 2, 1865
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, August, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Anne Wharton Seward, July 7, 1864
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 28, 1859
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Biography: Politician, lawyer, statesman, and the 16th president of the United States of America. Lincoln is credited for leading the United States through its civil war and successfully preserving the union, thus paving the way for abolition throughout the United States of America.
Taken from whitehouse.gov:
As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.
The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.
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Spouse
Lincoln, Mary (MTL)
Biography
Politician, lawyer, statesman, and the 16th president of the United States of America. Lincoln is credited for leading the United States through its civil war and successfully preserving the union, thus paving the way for abolition throughout the United States of America.
Taken from whitehouse.gov:
As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.
The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.
Letter from Anna Wharton Seward to Frances Miller Seward, March 31, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 1, 1862
Fragment by Frances Miller Seward
Letter from Frederick William Seward to Frances Miller Seward, June 5, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, January 19, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, February 16, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, December 21, 1861
Letter from Charles Sumner to William Henry Seward, October 20, 1864
Letter from William Henry Seward to William Henry Seward, Jr., November 14, 1866
Letter from George Washington Seward to Frances Miller Seward, March 12, 1861
Letter from John Carlin to William Henry Seward, February, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, March 12, 1862
Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, March 14, 1863
Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to Lazatte Miller Worden, January 23, 1863
Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, November 19, 1862
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, February 20, 1862
Letter from George Washington Seward to Frances Miller Seward, December 12, 1861
Letter from Frederick William Seward to Frances Miller Seward, October 20, 1861
Letter from Frederick William Seward to Frances Miller Seward, October 7, 1861
Letter from William Henry Seward, Jr. to Janet Watson Seward, March 6, 1861
Letter from William Henry Seward, Jr. to Janet Watson Seward, March 4, 1861
Letter from John Carlin to Frederick William Seward, November 30, 1864
Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to Frances Miller Seward, Feburary 11, 1864
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 2, 1865
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, August, 1861
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Anne Wharton Seward, July 7, 1864
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, January 28, 1859
Citations
Politician, lawyer, statesman, and the 16th president of the United States of America. Lincoln is credited for leading the United States through its civil war and successfully preserving the union, thus paving the way for abolition throughout the United States of America.
Taken from whitehouse.gov:
As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.
The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.