The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and an event often considered its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.Largely self-educated, Lincoln became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, in which he served for twelve years.In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state. Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South, he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. Lincoln's victory prompted seven southern slave states to form the Confederate States of America before he moved into the White House.Lincoln was re-elected president in November of 1864.He was shot dead on April 14, 1865.An inspiring biography of one of the greatest human beings on the earth who laid down his life for the betterment of mankind._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ContentsPreface — Pgs. 71. The Wild West — Pgs. 112. The Lincoln Family — Pgs. 163. Early Years — Pgs. 204. In Indiana — Pgs. 275. Second Journey to New Orleans — Pgs. 326. Desultory Employments — Pgs. 347. Entering Politics — Pgs. 418. Entering the Law — Pgs. 489. On the Circuit — Pgs. 5410. Social Life and Marriage — Pgs. 6111. The Enroachmets of Slavery — Pgs. 6712. The Awakening of the Lion — Pgs. 7213. Two Things that Lincoln Missed — Pgs. 7914. The Birth of the Republican Party — Pgs. 8415. The Battle of the Giants — Pgs. 8916. Growing Audacity of the Slave Power — Pgs. 9617. The Backwoodsman at the Center of Eastern Culture — Pgs. 10118. The Nomination of 1860 — Pgs. 10719. The Election — Pgs. 11620. Four Long Months — Pgs. 12321. Journey to Washington — Pgs. 13022. The Inauguration — Pgs. 13823. Lincoln His Own President — Pgs. 14424. Fort Sumter — Pgs. 15025. The Outburst of Patriotism — Pgs. 15626. The War Here to Stay — Pgs. 16227. The Darkest Hour of the War — Pgs. 16828. Lincoln and Fremont — Pgs. 17329. Lincoln and McClellan — Pgs. 17930. Lincoln and Greeley — Pgs. 18631. Emancipation — Pgs. 19332. Discouragements — Pgs. 20133. New Hopes — Pgs. 20734. Lincoln and Grant — Pgs. 21435. Literary Characteristics — Pgs. 22236. Second Election — Pgs. 22837. Close of the War — Pgs. 23338. Assassination — Pgs. 23939. A Nation's Sorrow — Pgs. 24640. The Measure of a Man — Pgs. 25341. Testimonies — Pgs. 260Timeline — Pgs. 267