"Abe the Honest", as he is generally nicknamed, was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County in the State of Kentucky. It was at this time that the United States began its expansion towards the West and it lives among the pioneers of Kentucky, in a tiny log cabin. His father is indeed a peasant settled on the edge of colonized lands, he loses his wife when Abe is only 9 years old.
Abe learns to cut wood and make fences but also shows a taste for reading which astonishes his father and his new wife since he goes very little to school.
He tries to escape the fate of the unfortunate peasant of the Frontier and begins to work in a shop in his village. He is very robust and has a reputation as a wrestler and a participant in the war against the Black Hawk Indians. He initially moved to New Salem, Illinois where he was appointed postmaster before moving to Springfield; He then began his law studies.
At the time, Lincoln was described as an awkward and timid young man, but he was also an ambitious man who did not hesitate to speak for the subjects he loved.
In 1842, he met his future wife Mary Todd; They have four children, only one of whom will reach adulthood
Lincoln was elected to the United States Congress but, disappointed by the approval of Congress of the war against Mexico, he eventually returned to Springfield. In 1858, he presented himself against Stephen Douglas for a position as Senator. In spite of his defeat, the eloquence with which he expressed himself enabled him to be chosen as the representative of the Republican party in the election of 1860. He thus formed a united and formed republican party to stop the development of slavery especially in The newly acquired States.
Despite his limited experience as a leader, he turns out to be a perfect military leader capable of inspiring courage. On January 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, he proclaimed the Emancipation of all the blacks of America.
During the carnage at Gettysburg, he stressed the importance of remembering all his deaths so that "this nation, under the power of God, can experience a rebirth of freedom and that the people's government, by the people and for the People do not disappear from the surface of the Earth. "
In 1864 he was re-elected and in April 1865, General Lee, signed his capitulation before the Union at Appomattox. Lincoln is generous with the losers and encourages them to surrender their weapons to join the Union as quickly as possible. The proclamation of the abolition of slavery is passed by Congress for all the United States.
On Good Friday in the year 1865, the life of the hero of the nation ended tragically. He was assassinated at Ford's Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Seven million people attended the funeral procession to Illinois. With his death the will for a rapid national reconciliation collapses and his successors do not have the same generosity as him. It will take another century for Blacks to get the promised equality
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1854...Abraham Lincoln.
Ambrotype acquired in 2006 by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. From daguerreotype by Polycarp Von Schneidau, Chicago, Illinois, October 27, 1854. (Image enlarged; actual size 7.5 × 6.25 × 1.5 cm.)
Source : "A living, creeping lie": Abraham Lincoln on Popular Sovereignty
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The portrait
The language of photography
If the main interest of the portraits executed by a painter is to penetrate beyond the face the soul and character of his models, the first aim of a photograph is to leave a faithful and exact document of the features of a no one.
But if the photographer possesses the qualities of an artist, he can reconcile resemblance with beauty by skillfully using the technical means at his disposal.
This very rare photo of Abraham Lincoln,
A. Hesler: portrait of A. Lincoln, executed in 1860
The great president of the United States is a proof of that. It possesses an incontestable documentary value because it dates from more than a century, but it is also remarkable by the psychological interpretation of the character. In a nutshell, this is an art photograph.
The model was taken three-quarters, which brings out the energetic and voluntary line of thin face. The clear background on which the image clearly stands out, the light projected from above, accentuate the expression of calm and firmness that is read in the limpid and straight gaze
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Lincoln and his horse arrived at President Lincoln's Country House - in bronze form (form), in short. The 2500-pound sculpture, given power by the generosity of Robert H. Smith, commemorates Lincoln's bicentenary.
Lincoln and his family lived at the Country House for a quarter (quarter, quarter) of his presidency - it was the place where Lincoln traced (determined) Union wartime strategies ( Of the Syndicate), marched on the proclamation of emancipation and decided to include the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery in the Republican platform of 1864.
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Had the President of the United States foreseen his own death? Sometimes people have to be taken seriously that their dreams are realized. When Abraham Lincoln himself experienced premonition in 1865, he first met the skepticism of his collaborators.
Lincoln recounted his dream to one of his close friends, Ward Hill Lamon, who transcribed the president's remarks the same evening.
"About ten days ago, I went to bed very late ... Soon, I began to dream. I seemed to be surrounded by a deadly silence. Then I perceived sobbed sobs, as if many people were crying. I felt as if I were leaving my bed and going down the stairs.
Down below, the silence was disturbed by the same sobs full of compassion, but the afflicted remained invisible.
I went from room to room. I saw no one, but as I wandered, the same lugubrious complaints of distress reached me.
I was troubled and worried. Determined to discover the origin of these mysterious tears, I continued my journey until I reached the eastern room.
In front of me stood a catafalque where a body dressed in black lay. All around, soldiers guarded the catafalque. There were also a crowd of people. Some sadly contemplated the corpse, whose face was covered. Others wept with compassion.
"Who died at the White House? I asked one of the soldiers. "The President," he replied. He was killed by an assassin. "
A few days later, on April 14, Lincoln fell under the bullets of John Wilkes Booth. His body was exposed to the White House in the eastern room.
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
This is a photo archive with many photographs pertaining to the assassination of President Lincoln
April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot in the head by an actor named John Wilkes Booth, while Lincoln, his wife, and others sat in a private box at the Ford's Theater. Lincoln died the following morning.
Below are historical photographs depicting the assassination, the theater where it happened, and the aftermath including the Lincoln's funeral and the execution of the conspirators.
John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot Lincoln
The drawing above is a lithograph of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. From left to right: Henry Rathbone, Clara Harris, Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, and John Wilkes Booth.
Ford's Theater
Photograph of the presidential box at Ford's Theater, made two days after the assassination of President Lincoln. At the center of the box is the picture of George Washington which caught one of the spurs of John Wilkes Booth as he jumped to the stage after shooting Lincoln in the back of the head.
Sketch of Abraham Lincoln's deathbed by Alfred R. Waud.April 14-15, 1865
Photograph of Lincoln in death, as he was being embalmed and prepared for his lying in state. Taken at the White House on April 16, 1865 by John B. Bachelder
The Wanted Poster for John Wilkes Booth
The steam locomotive that drew Lincoln's Funeral Train from Washington to Springfield
Cérémonies des funérailles du Président Abraham Lincoln
This remarkable photograph shows the funeral of Abraham Lincoln in New York in 1865, the funeral procession passing the Cornelius Roosevelt residence. The boys with the red-rimmed window observing the procession, are the future president Theodore Roosevelt aged 6 and his brother.
Lincoln's Funeral Procession in New York City, 1865
Booth's conspirators are executed. Execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt, conspirators of Abraham Lincoln assassination, on July 7, 1865 at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. 1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen, stereograph. Original captions: "Execution of the conspirators -- the drop"; from reverse side of submission notes: "The trap is sprung".
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