General Information:
Major "Events" of his Presidency:
- Abraham Lincoln had been the sixteenth President of the nation with Hannibal Hamlin as his main Vice President for his only term.
- Term as President lasted from 1861 to 1865.
- Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865 by John Wilkes Booth.
- Lincoln was a self-educated lawyer from Illinois, a Whig party leader, and a state legislator.
Major "Events" of his Presidency:
- The Confederate Congress unanimously adopts the Confederate Constitution.
- Fight at Fort Sumter forces surrender of Union/federal forces and retreat from the fort.
- An unofficial declaration of civil war with Lincoln announcing the attack as an "insurrection."
- The Battle of the Ironclads takes place.
- The Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee is appointed to his position.
- The Battle of Antietam takes place and is noted as "the bloodiest day of the Civil War."
- The Emancipation Proclamation is issued by President Lincoln along with the passing of the thirteenth amendment.
- Congress passes the draft, or the Conscription Law, which causes widespread rejection and revolt.
- Lincoln delivers his succinct Gettysburg Address after the Battle of Gettysburg.
- The creation of the Freedmen's Bureau.