On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected ... and Missouri -- President Lincoln insisted that the war was not about slavery or black rights; it was a war to preserve the Union.

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County ... During the April 6- August 27 Black Hawk War (an attempt in 1832 of the Sac and Fox Indians led by Black Hawk to reclaim their ...

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, served two terms.Besides his presidency, he was also a participant in the Black Hawk War and a representative in the House of Representatives ...

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington ... Lincoln served as a captain in the Black Hawk War — then spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, notes his official biography on the ...

In his 1863 Gettysburg Address, he argued that the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln ...

It would be a difficult task in most cases to build “up the man in his habit as he lived,” from such meagre sources; but President ... of volunteers in the Black Hawk war, but this, his ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...