Abraham Lincoln and The Civil War

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Abraham Lincoln and The Civil War

• Betsy Wilkinson
• ETE 100-03
• September 7, 2005

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President Lincoln

• Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates
  in 1860, to become the 16th President of the
  United States of America

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War!

• The Civil War began when the Confederate Army
  attacked Fort Sumter on April 12-14, 1861

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Bull Run

• Confederate forces defeated the Union Army at the
  first battle of Bull Run, on July 21, 1861

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Free at Last!

• Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on
  January 1, 1863, which freed the slaves

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Gettysburg Address

• Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address
  on November 19, 1863

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Union Victories

• General Sherman captured Atlanta, GA on September
  2, 1864
• On November 8, Lincoln was elected to his second
  term as President

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Confederates Surrender!

• On April 8, 1965, Lee surrendered to Grant at
  Appomattox Court House, VA, ending the Civil War

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The President has been Shot!

• As President and Mrs. Lincoln were enjoying an
  evening of comedy at Fords Theater on April 14,
  1865, actor John Wilkes Booth snuck into their
  balcony and shot the President

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Death of a President

• The President never regained consciousness, and
  died early in the morning on April 15, 1865
• His funeral procession began in Washington, D.C.
  and carried his body 1700 miles before arriving
  in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, IL, where
  he was finally laid to rest on May 4, 1865