Abraham Lincoln 4 Essay Research Paper Abraham

Abraham Lincoln 4 Essay, Research Paper

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. When

he was two, the Lincoln s moved a few miles to another farm on the old

Cumberland Trail. A year later, his mother gave birth to another boy,

Thomas, but he died a few days later. When Lincoln was seven his family

moved to Indiana. In 1818, Lincoln s mother died from a deadly disease

called the milk-sick. Then ten years later his sister died and left him with

only his father and stepmother.

Lincoln traveled to New Salem in April 1831 and settled there the

following July. In the fall of 1836 he and Mrs. Bennett Abell had a deal

that if she brought her single sister to New Salem he had to promise to

marry her. When she arrived he was not to pleased with her because her

skin was full of fat. Around seven months later he asked Mrs. Orville

Browning to marry him but she said no. Lincoln met his wife to be, Mary

Todd, at the grand cotillion in honor of the completion of the new capital

building in 1839. They got engaged and a while later he broke off the

engagement because she was seeing other men. Around a year later in

Springfield on November 4, 1842 Abraham and Mary got married. In 1844,

Abraham and his wife were able to purchase their own house in

Springfield. It was a one-and-a-half story frame cottage. In May 1843,

the Lincoln s had a son and named him Robert, after the addition to the

family they made the house a full two story house. Lincoln had three

more sons Edward Baker, William Wallace, and Thomas. Edward died at

the age of three, the cause of death was either consumption or

pulmonary tuberculosis.

In 1832 Lincoln announced himself a candidate for the state

legislature but he was defeated. Then a year later he was appointed

postmaster of New Salem and in the fall he became deputy county

surveyor. He really wanted a seat in the Illinois legislature so he ran again

and was elected with bipartisan support.

Lincoln was very interested in being a lawyer, he would walk fifteen

miles just to watch the court cases in Boonville, Indiana. Lincoln got a

license to practice law after several hard years of teaching himself. By

the early 1850s, the Lincoln-Herndon law office had become a leading

Springfield firm.

Chairman of the Senate s Committee on Territories, Stephen A.

Douglas of Illinois came out with a new congressional act. Lincoln

thought the Kansas-Nebraska Act was just wrong. In the summer of 1854

Lincoln decided to campaign for a position in the Illinois State Assembly.

In November he won but resigned because he wanted a seat in the

United States Senate, where he thought he could make a real difference.

He was defeated by Lyman Trumbull but in 1856, Lincoln was helping to

create a new political party in Illinois called the Republicans. The new

party s first and primary goal was to prevent Democrat James Buchanan

from winning the Presidency, it failed. Then two days after Buchanan s

inauguration the Supreme Court ruled the Missouri Compromise

unconstitutional and denied that Negros could never be considered

American citizens. On June 16, 1858 the Illinois State Republican

Convention nominated Lincoln to run against Stephen Douglas for the

United States Senate. The seven Lincoln-Douglas debates during the late

summer and fall of 1858 were the highlight of the campaign, in towns all

over the state. Ten thousand people attended the opening three-hour

debate in Ottawa, Illinois, and there were fifteen thousand at the second

in Freeport. Douglas won the Senate race, but the debates launched

Lincoln on his own path to presidency.

In 1861, on March 4 Lincoln was inaugurated as President. Lincoln s

first official act was the appointment of John G. Nicolay as his private

secretary. One month after he had taken office he got word that the 6th

Massachusetts Infantry was on its way to defend Washington, which had

been attacked by a Baltimore mob leaving thirteen people dead.

In May of 1861 Tennessee, North Carolina, and Arkansas joined the

Confederacy. The first important battle of the war takes place near

Manassas along a sluggish creek called Bull Run, 20 miles southwest of

Washington. The battle killed 847 people and more than 2,500 were

wounded.

Lincoln felt for the slaves and tried to do alot to help them out by

signing a law giving freedom to slaves who are being used by

Confederates to help in the war effort.

On February 20, 1862 the Lincoln s eleven-year-old son, Willie died

of bilious fever. He died in the Prince of Wales Room in the White House.

The first White House funeral for a child was conducted in the East Room,

he was buried in a borrowed vault at Georgetown s Oak Hill Cemetery.

Lincoln was so heart broken he went to the cemetery twice the week

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