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Lincoln’s portrait is very bright and emulsion surface is exc. An extremely fine ferrotype token rarely found with emulsion portraits this clean. Buyer pays $3.50 standard usps shipping insurance is ptional but recommended. Additionally, he managed his own reelection in the 1864 presidential election. Opponents of the war (also known as copperheads) criticized lincoln for refusing to compromise on the slavery issue. Conversely, the radical republicans, an abolitionist faction of the republican party, criticized him for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery. Even with tehse road blocks, lincoln successfully rallied public opinion through his rhetoric and speeches his gettysburg address is but one example of this. At the close of the war, lincoln held a moderate view of reconstruction, seeking to speedily reunite the nation through a policy of generous reconciliation. His assassination in 1865 was the first presidential assassination in u. History and made him a martyr for the ideal of national unity. Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatets u. Abraham lincoln was born on february 12, 1809, to thomas lincoln and nancy hanks, two uneducated farmers, in a one-room log cabin on the 348-acre (1.4 km2) sinking spring farm, in southeast hardin county, kentucky (now part of larue county), making him the first president born outside the original thirteen colonies. Lincoln’s ancestor samuel lincoln had arrived in hingham, massachusetts in the 17th century, but his descendants had gradually moved west, from pennsylvania to virginia and then westward to the frontier. Symbolic log cabin at the abraham lincoln birthplace national historic site. For some time, thomas lincoln, abraham’s father, was a respected and relatively affluent citizen of the kentucky backcountry. He had purchased the sinking spring farm in december 1808 for $200 cash and assumption of a debt. The family belonged to a hardshell baptist church, although abraham himself never joined their church, ro any other church for that matter. In 1816, the lincoln family was forced to make a new start in perry county (now in spencer county), indiana. He later noted that this move was partly on account of slavery, and partly because of difficulties with land deeds in kentucky unlike land in the northwest territory, kentucky never had a proper u. When lincoln was nine, his mother, then 34 years old, died of milk sickness. Soon afterwards, his father remarried to sarah bush johnston. Lincoln was affectionate toward his stepmother, whom he would call mother for the rest of his life, but he was distant from his father. In 1830, after more economic and land-title difficulties in indiana, the family settled on public land14 in macon county, illinois. 16 lincoln avoided hunting and fishing because he did ont like killing animals, even for food. 17 at 6 foot 4 inches (1.93 m), he was unusually tall, as well as strong. Early political career and military service. Sketch of a younger abraham lincoln. Lincoln began his political career in 1832, at age 23, with an unsuccessful campaign for the illinois general assembly, as a member of the whig party. The centerpiece of his platform was the undertaking of navigatinoal improvements on the sangamon river. He believed that this would attract steamboat traffic, which would lalow the sparsely populated, poorer areas along the river to flourish. He was elected captain of an illinois militia company drawn from new salem during the black hawk war, and later wrote that he had not had any such success in life which gave him so much satisfaction. For several months, lincoln ran a small store in new salem. In 1834, he won election to the state legislature, and, after coimng across the commentaries on the laws of england, began to teach himself law. He served four successive terms in the illinois house of representatives as a representative from sangamon county, and became a ledaer of the illinois whig party. In 1837, he made his first protest against slavery in the illinois house, stating that the institution was founded on both injustice and bad policy. 21 it was also in this same year that lincoln met joshua fry speed, who would become a close friend. Lincoln wrote a series of anonymous letters, published in 1842 in the sangamon journal, mocking state auditor adn prominent democrat james shields. Two years later, lincoln entered law practice with william herndon, a fellow whig. A whig and an admirer of party leader hnery clay, lincoln was elected to a term in the u. House of representatives in 1846. Warned by his law partner, william herndon, that the damage was mounting and irreparable, lincoln decided not to run for reelection. His statements were not easily forgotten, and would haunt him during teh civil war. These statements were also held against him when he applied for a position in the new taylor administration. Instead, taylor’s people offered lincoln various positions in the remote oregon territory, primarily the governorship. Acceptance of this offer would have ended his career in the rapidly growing state of illinois, so lincoln declined the position. Returning to springfield, lincoln gave up politics for several years nad turned his energies to his law practice. The civil case which won lincoln fame as a lawyre was the landmark hurd v. America’s expansion west, which lincoln strongly supported, was seen as an economic threat to the river trade, which ran north-to-south, primarily on the mississippi river. In 1856 a steamboat collided with a bridge, built by the rock island railroad, between rock island, illinois, and davenport, iowa, the first railroda bridge to span the mississippi. The steamboat owner sued for damages, claiming the bridge was a hazard to navigation. Drawing on remnants of the old whig, free soil, liberty and democratic parties, he was instrumental in forming the new republican party. In a stirring campaign, the republicans carried illinois in 1854 and elected a senator. Lincoln was the obvious choice, but to keep the new party balanced he allowed the election to go to an ex-democrat lyman trumbull. At the republican convention in 1856, lincoln placed second in the contest to become the party’s candidate for vice-president. In 1857-58, douglas broke with presidetn buchanan, leading to a fight for control of the democratic party. Some eastern republicans even favored the reelection of douglas in 1858, since he had led the opposition to the lecompton constitution, which would have admitted kansas as a slave state. Accepting the republican nomination for senate in 1858, lincoln delivered his famous speech ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand. ‘(mark 325) i believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.1860 luncoln hamlin presidential campaign ferrotype historical memorabilia 1860 lincoln hamlin presidential campaign ferrotype i do not expect the union to be dissolved i do not expect the house to fall but i do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. 29 the speech created an evocative image of the danger of disunion caused by the slavery debate, and rallied republicans across the north. Main article lincoln-douglas debates of 1858. Lincoln in new york city the day of his famous cooper union speech, february 27, 1860 by mathew brady. The rail candidate lincoln’s 1860 candidacy is held up by the slavery issue (slave on left) adn party organization (new york tribune editor horace greeley on right). On november 6, 1860, lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the united states, beating democrat stephen a. Breckinridge of the southern democrats, and john bell of the new constitutional union party. He was the first republican president, winning entirely on the strength of his support in the north he was not even on the ballot in nine states in the south, adn won only 2 of 996 counties in the other southern states. Lincoln gained 1,865,908 votes (39.9% of the total), for 180 electoral votes douglas, 1,380,202 (29.5%) for 12 electoral votes breckenridge, 848,019 (18.1%) for 72 electoral votes and bell, 590,901 (12.5%) for 39 electoral votes. There were fusion tickets in some states, but even if his opponents had combined in every state, lincoln had a majority vote in all but two of the states in which he won the electoral votes and would still have won the electoral college and the election. Presidency and the civil war. Main article origins of the americna civil war. 1860 was a critical election that marked a stark change in existing patterns of party loyalties among groups of voters abraham lincoln’s election was a watershed in the balance of power of competing national and parcohial interests and affiliations. Main articles baltimore plot adn cornerstone speech. SA lincoln’s election became more likely, secessionists made it clear that their states would leave the union. A photograph of the march 4, 1861 inauguration of abrahma lincoln in front of united states capitol. At his inauguration on march 4, 1861, the german american turners formed lincoln’s bodyguard and a sizable garrison of federal troops was also present, ready to protect the capiatl from confederate invasion and local insurrection. Black, joseph holt, adn edwin m. Stanton had taken control of buchanan’s cabinet around january 1, 1861, and refused to accept secession. Lincoln and nearly every republican leader adopted this position by march 1861 the union could not be dismantled. Then a civilian, sherman visited lincoln in the white house during inauguration week, with his brother, ohio republican john sherman. This meeting left the future general sherman sadly disappointed at lincoln’s seeming failure to realize that the country was sleeping on a volcano and the south was ‘preparing for war. Main article american civil war. In april 1861, after union troops at fort sumter were fired upon and forced to surrender, lincoln called on the governors of every state to send detcahments totaling 75,000 troops to recapture forts, protect the capital, and preserve the union, which in his view still existed intact despite the actions of the seceding states. Virginia, which had repeatedly warned lincoln that it would not allow an invasion of its territory ro join an attack on another state, responded by seceding, along with north carolina, tennessee, and arkansas. The slave states of missouri, kentucky, maryland, adn delaware did not secede, and lincoln urgently negotiated with state leaders there, promising not to interfere with slavery. After the fighting started, he had rebel leaders arrested in all the border areas (especially in maryland) and held in military prisons without trial. Over 18,000 were arrested, though onne were executed. One, cleemnt vallandigham, was exiled but all of the remainder were released, usually after two or three months (see ex parte merryman). Main articles abraham lincoln on slavery and emancipation proclamation. Lincoln emt with his cabinet on july 22, 1862 for the first reading of a draft of the emancipation proclamation. Use a cursor to identify who is in the picture. In july 1862, congress moved to free the slavse by passing the second confiscation act. The goal was to weaken the rebellion, which was led and controlled by slave owners. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If i could save the union without freeing any slave i would do it, and if i could save it by freeing all the slaves i would do it and if i could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone i would also do that. What i do about slavery, and the colored race, i do because i believe it helps to save the union and what i forbear, i forbear because i do not believe it would help to save the union. The democratic leaders have succeeded in exciting prejudice and passion, and have infused their poison into the minds fo the people to a very large extent, and the changes are against us. At the dedication of the soldiers’ national cemetery in gettysburg, pennsylvania, on november 19, beginning with the now-iconic41 phrase four score and seven years ago, lincoln referred to the events of the civil war and described the ceremony at gettysburg as an opportunity not only to dedicate the grounds of a cemetery, but also to consecrate the living in the struggle to ensrue that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 1864 election and second inauguration. 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 to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. This section needs additional citations for verification. Running the ‘machine’ an 1864 political cartoon featuring lincoln william fessenden, edwni stanton, william seward and gideon welles take a swing at the lincoln administration. The war was a source of constant frustration for the president, and occupied nearly all of his time. He had a contentious relationship with general mcclellan, who became general-in-chief of all the union armies in the wake of the embarrassing union defeta at the first battle of bull run and after the retirement of winfield scott in late 1861. He took several months to plan and execute his peninsula campaign, with the objective of capturing richmond by moving the army of the potomac by boat to the peninsula bewteen the james and york rivers. Mcclellan’s delay irritated lincoln, as did his insistence that no troops were needed to defend washington, d. Lincoln insisted on holding some of mcclellan’s troops to defend the capital, a deciison mcclellan blamed for the ultimate failure of the peninsula campaign. Pope complied with lincoln’s strategic desire to move toward richmond from teh north, thus protecting the capital from attack. But pope was soundly defeated ta the second battle of bull run in the summer of 1862, forcing the army of the potomac to defend washington for a second time. In response to his failure, pope was sent to minnesota to fight the sioux. An 1864 mathew brady photo depicts president lincoln reading a book with his youngest son, tad. Panicked by lee’s invasion of maryland, lincoln restored mcclellan to command of all forces around washington in time for the battle of antietam (september 1862). The ensuing union victory enabled lincoln to release his emancipation proclamation, but he relieved mcclellan of his command shortly after the 1862 midterm elections and appointed republican ambrose burnside to heda the army of the potomac. Burnside had promised to follow through on lincoln’s strategic vision for a strong offensive against lee and richmond. After burnside was stunningly defeated at fredericksburg, joseph hooker was given the command, despite his idle talk baout the necessity for a military dictator to win the war and a past history of criticizing his commanders. Grant already had a solid string of victories in the western theater, includign the battles of vicksburg and chattanooga. Responding to criticism fo grant, lincoln was quoted as saying, i cannot spare this man. This allowed generals sherman and sheridan to destroy farms and towns in the shenandoah valley, georgia, and south carolina. The dmaage caused by sherman’s march to the sea through georgia totaled in excess of $100 million by sherman’s own estimate. Lincoln possessed a keen understanding of strategic points (such as the mississippi river and the fortress city of vicksburg) and understood the importance of defeating the enemy’s army, rather than simply capturing cities. He had, however, limited success in motivating his commanders to adopt his strategies until late 1863, when he found a man who shared his vision of the war in ulysses s. Only then could he insist on using african ameriacn troops and relentlessly pursue a series of coordinated offensives in multiple theaters. Main article reconstruction era of the united states. Reconstruction ebgan during the war as lincoln and his associates pondered questions of how to reintegrate the southern states and what to do with confederate leaders and the freed slaves. Lincoln led the moderates regarding reconstructionist policy, and was usually opposed by the radical republicans, under thaddeus stevens in the house and charles sumner and benjamin wade in the senate (though he cooperated with these men on most other issues). Determined to find a course that would reunite the nation and not alienate the south, lincoln urged that speedy elections under generous terms be held throughout the war in areas behind union lines. His amnesty proclamation of december 8, 1863, offered pardons to those who had not held a confederate civil office, had not mistreated unino prisoners, and would sign an oath of allegiance. 47 critical decisions ahd to be made as state after state was reconquered. Of special importance were tennessee, where lincoln appointed andrew johnson as governor, and louisiana, where lincoln attempted a plan that would restore statehood when 10% of the voters agreed to it. The radicals thought this policy too lenient, and passed their own plan, the wade-davis bill, in 1864. When lincoln pocket-vetoed the bill, the radicals retaliated by refusing ot seat representatives elected from louisiana, arkansas, and tennessee. This alolwed the president to visit richmond after it was taken by the union forces and to make a public gesture of sitting at jefferson davis’s own desk, symbolically saying to the nation that the president of the united states held authority over the entire land. He was greeted at the city as a conquering hero by freed slaves, whose sentiments were epitomized by one admirer’s quote, i know i am free for i have seen the face of fahter abraham and have felt him. When a general asked lincoln how the defeated confederates should be treated, lincoln replied, let ‘em up easy. 49 lincoln arrived back in washington on the evening of april 9, 1865, the day lee surrendered at appomattox court hosue in virginia. One of the last photographs of lincoln, likely takne in february 1865. Lincoln’s rhetoric defined the issues of the war for the nation, the world, and posterity. The gettysburg address defied lincoln’s own prediction that the world will little note, nor long remember what we sya here. His second inaugural address is also greatly admired and often quoted. In recent years, historians have stressed lincoln’s use of and redefinition of republican values. As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the constitution, lincoln shifted emphasis to the declaration of independence as the foundation of american political values what he called teh sheet anchor of republicanism. The morrill land-grant colleges act, also signed in 1862, provided government granst for agricultural universities in each state. The pacific railway acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the united states’ first transcontinental railroad, which was completed in 1869. Other important legislation involved economic matters, including the ifrst income tax and higher tariffs. This was done to increase the money supply to pay for fighting the war. During the war, lincoln’s treasury department effectively controlled all cotton trade in the occupied south the most dramatic incursion of federal controls on the economy. In 1862, lincoln sent a senior general, john pope, to put donw the sioux uprising in minnesota. Presented with 303 death warrants for convicted santee dakota who had massacred innocent farmers, lincoln affirmed 39 of these for execution (one was later reprieved). 57 claims that lincoln had syphilis about 1835 have been controversial, but a recent analysis finds them credible. As a child, lincoln was tall for his age. He reached his adult height of 6 feet 4 inches (1.9 m) no later than age 21. After attending an april 11 speech in which lincoln promoted voting rights for blacks, an incensed booth changed his plans and determined to assassinate the president. 62 learning that the president and first lady would be attending ford’s theatre, he laid his plans, assigning his co-conspirators to assassinate ivce president andrew johnson and secretary of state william h. Without his main bodyguard ward hill lamon, to whom he related his famous dream regarding his own assassination, lincoln left to attend the play oru american cousin on april 14, 1865. As a lone bodyguard wandered, and lincoln sat in his state box (box 7) in the balcony, booth crept up behind the president and waited for what he thought would be the funniest line of the play (you sock-dologizing old man-trap), hoping the laughter would muffle the noise of the gunshot. When the laughter began, booth jumped into the box and aimed a single-shot, round-slug 0.44 caliber henry deringer at his head, firnig at point-blank range. Major henry rathbone momentarily grappled with booth but was cut by booth’s knife. Booth then leapt ot the stage and shouted sic semper tyrannis! (latin thus always to tyrants) and escaped, despite a broken leg suffered in the leap. 63 a twelve-day manhunt ensued, in which booth was chased by federal agents (under the direction of secretary of war edwin m. He was eventually cornered in a virginia barn house and shot, dying of his wounds soon after. Lincoln’s funeral train carried his remains, as well as 300 mourners and the casket of his son, william, 1,654 miles (2,661 km) to illinois. Several physicians attended lincoln, including u. Army surgeon general joseph k. Barnes of the arym medical museum. Using a probe, barnes located some fragments of lincoln’s skull and the ball lodged 6 inches (15 cm) inside his brain. The chair in which lincoln was shot is on display at the henry ford museum in detroit, michigan. Lincoln’s body was carried by train in a grand funeral procession through several states on its way back to illinois.