President Abraham Lincoln

(1861-1865)

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Mary Todd (1818-1882)

Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865)

Vice-President Andrew Johnson (1865)

 

 

I happen, temporarily, to occupy the White House. I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

                     -- Abraham Lincoln to the 166th Ohio Regiment

 

Fort Sumter?

Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to be assas- sinated. His son, Robert, who was in Washington when his father was killed, was on the scene when President James Garfield was shot in 1881 and also when President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901.  "Old Abe's" law partner William Herndon referred to Lincoln's ambition as a "little engine that knew no rest."  He may have been our tallest President (although I have read that George Washington was 1/2" taller). Who was our shortest President?

Information

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum
• Mr. Lincoln's White House
• Lincoln: Man, Martyr, Myth
• Abraham Lincoln and the United States Civil War
• Old State Capitol (Illinois) Historic Site
• Lincoln-Herndon Law Practice
• The Lincoln Memorial
• Abraham Lincoln Online
• Abraham Lincoln Links (Excellent)
• The History Place Presents Abraham Lincoln
• The Unofficial Abraham Lincoln Museum Site
• Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
• Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
• Lincoln Home National Historic Site
• Lincoln Log Cabin
• Lincoln Museum (Ft. Wayne, Indiana)
• Lincoln Tomb State Historical Site
• Lincoln-Douglas Debate Sites
• Mount Rushmore
• Robert Todd Lincoln (Son)
• Theodore Roosevelt: Lincoln and the Race Problem
• Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library (Library of Congress)
• Abraham Lincoln Research Site (Excellent -- Roger Norton)
  • Mary Todd Lincoln Research Site
  • Robert Todd Lincoln
  • Quotes
• Mary Todd Lincoln House
  • Famous People with Mental Illness
• Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library (Library of Congress)
  • Related Sources
• Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War (Library of Congress)
• Abraham Lincoln (History Place)
• AITLC Guide to Abraham Lincoln
• Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln (Sam Dickson)
  Lincoln's Calvinist Transformation: Emancipation and War
• Paranormal Lincoln
• Abraham Lincoln.net
• The Gettysburg Address(About)
• Abraham Lincoln Treasure Hunt (Primary Grades)
• The Time of the Lincolns (PBS/American Experience)
• The Lincoln Tomb
• The Gettysburg Address (About)
• The Myth of Lincoln, Reconstructed (Joshua Wolf Shenk)
• Lincoln Ain't What You're Thinkin':Excursus on a Modern Myth (James Patrick Holding)
• Abraham Lincoln's Body Exhumed and Viewed in 1901
• Why Lincoln Was Called 'Honest Abe'
• Was Abraham Lincoln a Racist?
• A Murder Mystery by Abraham Lincoln
• Abraham Lincoln
• Civil War Photographs: Abraham Lincoln
• Mary Todd Lincoln
• When Lincoln Lived by the Sword
• A Patent for a President
• Lincolon Takes the Heat (History Net)
• Abraham Lincoln Online
• Hard Drinkin' Lincoln
• Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream (Bennett Lerone, Jr.)
• Lincoln and Slavery (Peter Burchard )
• Portrait of a President
• Was Lincoln Gay?
• Abraham Lincoln Cartoons
  
  

Biography

• Presidents of the United States (POTUS)
• White House Biography
• Grolier Online
• The World of Abraham Lincoln
• The World of Abraham Lincoln (Shane Sakkinen)
• On Abraham Lincoln (Robert Ingersoll/1894)
• Abraham Lincoln Biography

Documents

• First Inaugural Address (1861)
• Second Inaugural Address (1865)
• The Library of Congress Gettysburg Address Exhibit
• The Lincoln Legal Papers
• President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
• Lyceum Address (1838)
• Lincoln Douglas Debates (1858)
  • Freeport, Illinois
• House Divided Speech (1858)
• Lincoln's Autobiography (1860)
• Copper Union Address (1860)
• Farewell Address (1861)
• Address to the New Jersey State Senate (1861)
• Address to the New Jersey General Assembly (1861)
• Address in Independence Hall (1861)
• Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress (1861)
• Proclamation of Blockade Against Southern Ports (1861)
• Letter to Horace Greeley (1862)
• Meditation on the Divine Will (1862)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• Gettysburg Address (1863)
• Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)
• Abraham Lincoln on Education
• Abraham Lincoln Papers (NARA)

Election Results

• Election of 1860 (Map)
• On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the United States presidency.
• Election of 1864 (Map)

Assassination

• Abraham Lincoln Assassination Site (Excellent)
• Lincoln Tomb Historic Site
• Ford's Theatre National Historic Site
• Peterson House
• A History of John Wilkes Booth
• The Postmortem Career of John Wilkes Booth
• Interesting Facts about Lincoln's Assassination
• The Last Newspaper to Report the Lincoln Assassination
• Obituary of Abraham Lincoln
• Surratt House Museum Home Page
• Abraham Lincoln: A Sermon by Phillips Brooks
• The Lincoln White House Funeral Sermon
• Lincoln-Kennedy Comparisons
• Assassination Related Pictures
• Library of Congress
• Mary Surratt Links (Metacrawler)
• Abraham Lincoln Assassination Report (NARA)
• The Life and Plot of John Wilkes Booth (Roger Norton)
• Abraham Lincoln's premonitions of his assassination
• Abraham Lincoln (About)
  • The Lincoln Assassination
  • Assassination Conspiracies
• On the Track of Assassin John Wilkes Booth
• The Death of President Lincoln, 1865
• The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Library of Congess)
• Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth
• Fleetwood Lindley (Google Search)

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