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Abraham Lincoln
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Category: History
Details: Words: 676 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Abraham Lincoln
Fun Fact: During the Civil War, telegraph wires were strung to follow the action on the battlefield. But there was no telegraph office in the White House, so Lincoln went across the street to the War Department to get the news.
Fast Fact: Abhorring war, Abraham Lincoln accepted it as the only means to save the Union.
Biography: Abraham Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and …showed first 75 words of 676 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 676 total…charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes 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 with magnanimity died.
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