Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is born February 12, 1809 to April 15, 1865. He was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Abraham Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War, it was a very bloody war. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while joining a play at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was ending. The assassination happened five days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Lincoln left to attend the play Our American Cousin on April 14. At the last minute, Grant decided to go to New Jersey to visit his children instead of attending the play. Lincoln's bodyguard, John Parker, left Ford's Theater during a break to drink at the saloon next door. The now unguarded President sat in his state box in the balcony. Grabbing the opportunity, Booth crept up from behind and at about 10:13 pm, aimed at the back of Lincoln's head and fired at directly range, extremely wounding the President. After being on the run for 12 days, Booth was tracked down and found on a farm in Virginia, some 70 miles south of Washington. After refusing to surrender to Union troops. Booth was killed by Sergeant Boston Corbett on April 26. In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state. As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican Party, Lincoln confronted Radical Republicans, who demanded tougher treatment of the South, War Democrats, who called for more compromise, anti-war Democrats who despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists, who plotted his assassination.