Abraham Lincoln's Relationship With Death

Abraham Lincoln, was the sixteenth president of the United States of America. He was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. When he was seven years old his family moved to Indidana and he grew up on the edge of the borderline. When he was younger he got very little education, but he read a lot when he was not working on his father’s farm. In 1828, when he was nineteen, he went on a boat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana and went to look around. After he was done looking at the city he walked all the way back home. Two years later Lincoln’s father decided to move the family to Illinois.

After Lincoln moved out of the house he co- owned a general store for many years before he decided to sell his part of the

Even though he did not get elected on his first try, Lincoln tried again and won a position in 1834, as a Whig.

When Abraham Lincoln was studying to be a lawyer he met Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham and Mary Todd were married in 1842 and had four sons. Only one lived to adulthood. With so many deaths and hardships throughout life, is in some ways gave them a close relationship with

Lincoln forced the Confederate army to supply the fort, which had become a position in a warlike nation. The southern navy had denied the supply escort and open fired the first shot of the war at Fort Sumter, making the Union defenders to surrender after a 34 hour battle.

During the war Lincoln struggled to find good generals for his armies. Lincoln was commander-in-chief, so he legally held the highest rank in the U.S. army. He always exercised his place by strategic planning, weapon testing, and the promotion and demotion of officers. McDowell, Fremont, McClellan, Pope, Buell, Burnside, and Rosecrans were all generals who were held under Lincoln’s authority as they failed to bring him victories.

Lincoln did not install his famous Emancipation Proclamation until January 1, 1863 which was after the victory at the Battle of Antietam. The proclamation was legally based on the president’s right to take back property of the states that were rebelling, only freed slaves in the Southern states where Lincoln’s forces had no control. But it did change the face of the war, from the northern point of view they were not only trying to save the union but to also end