Abraham Lincoln's Role In The Civil War

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The subject I chose to do for my paper was Abraham Lincoln. I believed he was one of the greatest presidents America has ever had. I will talk about his accomplishments as well as his down fall. I will start with Abrahams Lincolns Life before presidency. In 1846, Lincoln ran for the House of Representatives and won; While in Washington, he was known for his different view to the U.S. Mexican War. He opposed this war because he saw it as a way to extend slavery. The War started when Mexico said no to the Republic of Texas becoming a state. This was the first foreign war for the states and soldiers from every state served in, including Robert Lee, Thomas Jackson, and others. These men later were an important role in the Civil War. Lincoln became…show more content…
He failed to get the new immigrants on board with the war. He managed to get elected with a campaign designed to end slavery politically, but failed to hold the nation together, Abraham’s assassination is very interesting as well. John Wilkes Booth was born in Maryland in 1838 that remained in the North during the Civil War. As the conflict entered its final stages, he and several associates hatched a plot to kidnap the president and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital. On March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, Lincoln failed to appear at the spot where Booth and his six fellow conspirators lay in wait. Two weeks later, Richmond fell to Union forces. In April, with Confederate armies near collapse across the South, Booth came up with a desperate plan to save the Confederacy. Learning that Lincoln was to attend Laura Keene's acclaimed performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, Booth himself a well-known actor at the time planned the assassination of Lincoln, By murdering the president and two of his possible successors, Booth and his co-conspirators hoped to throw the states government into…show more content…
He wrote that the team stopped to stare at the offending weapon, during an autopsy. News of the president's death traveled quickly and by the end of the day flags across the country flew at half mast, businesses were closed and people who were happy at the end of the Civil War now were sad from Lincoln's shocking assassination. The president’s corpse was taken to the White House, and on April 18 it was carried to the Capitol rotunda. On April 21, Lincoln's body was boarded onto a train that went it to Springfield, Illinois, where he had lived before becoming president. Tens of thousands of Americans lined the railroad route and paid their respects to their fallen leader during the train's solemn progression through the North. Lincoln and his son were interred on May 4, 1865, at Oak Ridge Cemetery, near Springfield. As the nation mourned, Union soldiers were hot on the trail of John Wilkes Booth, who many in the audience had immediately recognized. After fleeing the capital, he and a partner, made their way to southern Maryland. The pair stopped at the home of Samuel Mud, a doctor who treated Booth's
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