The 13th Presedent of the United States
Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: “In your hands, my disatisfied fellow countryman, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not…
When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. 4 more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within…
“I was born Feb. 12, 1909, in Virginia. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families–second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth…
He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1958 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election,…
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