Abraham Lincoln was a man of modest beginnings. Born in a log cabin in rural Kentucky, Lincoln would one
day find himself in the midst of a great Civil War. During this war, Lincoln led the Union through a conflict that
began as a war for states' rights and ended as a war for human rights. At the famouse battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
Lincoln made his famous speech in which he said, "...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth."
Lincoln was re-elected to the Presidency in 1864, and readily welcomed the Confederacy to lay down arms and rejoin
the Union once again. Lincoln said it best in his second inaugural address: "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.... "
Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, on Good Friday, April 14, 1865. John Wilkes Boothe,
who believed he was helping the South, was the culprit.
"A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand"
