Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) - Naval Cruise Book

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,,,, Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil War had begun. The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for leaming. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for president, he sketched his life: I was bom in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families- -second families, perhaps I should say. My mother who, died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name Hanks...my father removed from Kentucky to...Indiana in my eighth year...it was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There, I grew up...Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher...but that was all. Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowl- edge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store as New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit courts formany y years. His law partner saidof him, His ambition. wasa As president, he built the Republican party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the union cause. On January 1,1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. Lincoln would never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettys- burg. Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to war. In planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion. The spirit that guided him was clearly that of second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us the right, let us strive on to finish A the work we are ing to bind up the Nation's wounds... On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassi- nated at Fords's theatre in Washington by John Booth, an actor who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace died. A g y little en inethat knew no rest.'7q - f . .r 1 I' V . V V 16111 U-S-PfCSidCI1f He married Mary'Todd,and a one ofwhom Served as 1861 -1. 865 T I 'n n odd L1 col against