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Lincoln nominated for president
Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the Republican candidate for president at convention in Chicago.
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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln announced the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that all slaves in rebellious parts of the South on January 1, 1863, would be freed. The President hoped that emancipation would undermine the Confederacy from within. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles reported that the President told him that freeing the slaves was “a military necessity, absolutely essential to the preservation of the Union. . . . The slaves [are] undeniably an element of strength to those who [have] their service, and we must decide...
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Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
In his 701-word Second Inaugural Address, President Lincoln reflected on the causes and purpose of the war. Lincoln asserted that the “scourge of war” could be understood as divine punishment for the long national sin of slavery, in which both North and South had been complicit. “Both parties deprecated war,” Lincoln said, “but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.” He urged Americans to “bind up the nations wounds” but not before...
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Lincoln assassinated
President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washingon, DC, during a performance of Our American Cousin.
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Second meeting of Lincoln and Douglass
In their second meeting, President Lincoln asked Frederick Douglass to lead efforts to free Southern slaves in the event that Lincoln was not re-elected.
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Fremont’s Proclamation
Major General John Charles Fremont issued an unauthorized order for the confiscation and emancipation of slaves; Lincoln later reversed it for fear of alienating “Southern Union friends.”
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Grant named Union general in chief
After a string of disappointing generals, President Lincoln named Ulysses S. Grant general in chief of the US Army.
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Hampton Roads Peace Conference
Lincoln met with a Confederate delegation at the Hampton Roads Peace Conference. He hoped to negotiate an end to the war, but failed to reach an agreement.
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South Carolina’s secession
Fearing that Lincoln’s election signaled the end of slavery, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union.
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Lincoln born
Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky, to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln.