Some Interesting Facts About Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer who served as the 16th President of the U.S from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the U.S through the American Civil War its bloodiest war and maybe its greatest moral constitutional and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln heard stories of him being assassinated. So instead of taking a day trian he had a crisis of night trains with mutable bodyguards in disguise with different jobs like to protect the train or his bunk and Abraham himself.

Because of the night trains in secret it took a lot longer to get to his destination Abraham was a political mastermind he was the tallest president at 6 foot 4 inches and he once got a letter from a girl and she told him he would look a lot wiser with a beard. So he grow a beard.

He once called out a military general and the general challenged him to a duel but Abraham was smart and got to choose the way they fight he made it with swords and had a bored in the middle that neither of them can cross. So Abraham has the reach advantage he cut a tall branch of a tree. To show that he has the in reach the general would be in a bad place sohe called of the duel.

President Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, which granted freedom to slaves in Confederate states, on New Year’s Day in 1863. Word didn’t reach the African-American slaves of Galveston, Texas, until June 19, 1865, when a force of two-thousand Union soldiers arrived and informed them of their freedom

President Lincoln was a good writer whose notes and speeches successfully rallied northern legislators and public thoughts to the Union cause. But as hopes for rapid victory evaporated, the president maintained his resolve to restore the nation. Through four bloody years, Lincoln exerted his authority as commander in chief , appointing generals, drafting soldiers, suppressing draft riots with armed troops, and establishing martial law where it was needed. He demonstrated his skill as a statesman when he issued the Emancipation claim in January 1863. The claim granted freedom to all slaves inside of rebel land, transforming a war fought to restore the Union into one fought for liberty.

Lincoln was reelected in 1864 as Union military victories heralded the war’s end. His initial outlines for Reconstruction suggested a swift and tolerant policy for readmitting the Confederate states, but he never had a chance to work with Congress to fulfill his plans. Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, barely a week after the Confederate surrender was signed. His greatest legacy remains the Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in December 1865, which abolished slavery forever.

Faced with the greatest crisis in the history of the nation, Abraham Lincoln invoked the New Testament when he declared, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” He committed his presidency to preserving the Union. The winning electoral votes were barely counted, however, before South Carolina seceded, soon followed by all the states of the Deep South. When the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in April 1861, Lincoln called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. The Civil War had begun.

“Juneteenth Day is the one day African-Americans were permitted to go to a public swimming pool,” Smith said. “And it was the one day they could go into the zoo. It was one of those days that the, I guess, philosophical leaders of Fort Worth could ‘give back’ to the people. I guess they didn’t realize, of course, there were 364 other days a year, either.”