Abraham+Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln **
 * ** Feb12, 1809 Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Ky. Abraham had one brother and one sister that died at infancy.**
 * ** Nov 6, 1860 he became the 16th president of the US and he was the 1st republican in office.**
 * ** March 4, 1861 president Lincoln delivers his 1st inaugural address.**
 * ** April16, 1862 Signs an Act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia .**
 * ** Sept. 1920 1863- Union defeats Chickamauga at Georgia, leaves Chattanooga in Tennessee under Confederate siege. The president appoints Gen. Grant to command all operations in the western section.**
 * ** March 12, 1864 - President Lincoln appoints Grant as general-in-chief of all the Federal armies.**
 * **William T. Sherman succeeds Grant as commander in the West.**
 * ** Nov 8,1864 4 years later he was re-elected as president.**
 * ** March 4, 1865 President Lincoln delivered his 2nd inaugural address**.
 * ** March 17, 1865 - A kidnap plot by John Wilkes Booth fails when Lincoln fails to arrive as expected at the soldiers' home.**
 * **April 11,1865 President Lincoln makes his last public speech and the United States stars and strips and is raised over fort Sumter. **
 * ** April 9, 1865 - Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia .**
 * ** April 15,1865 President Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning.**

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