The election of Lincoln prompted the South to begin to withdraw, or secede, from the Union. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln delivered a final plea to the South to remain, but to no avail. War ...

Abraham Lincoln is ... battle of the Civil War broke out at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, just weeks later. 6. It took more than 50 years for the Lincoln Memorial to be approved ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln ... an assassin cut his life short.