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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States, five months before the beginning of the Civil War.
Nearing the end of the bloody Civil War, Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865—quoting from the Gospels and Psalm 19: “But let us judge not that we be not judged. . . . The Almighty has his own purposes. Fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue . . . and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another . . . so still it must be said, 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’”
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated April 14, 1865—one month before the war Civil War ended.