Tell about Abraham Lincoln ?

He was set to take part in a duel, but it was cancelled at the last second.

Lincoln kept his important documents inside his hat.

Lincoln’s dog Fido was killed by a drunken assailant a year after Lincoln died.

Lincoln’s suit was made by Brooks Brothers.
Lincoln’s guest at Ford’s Theater was Ulysses S. Grant, who cancelled at the last second.

In March 1830 the Lincoln family undertook a second migration, this time to Illinois, with Lincoln himself driving the team of oxen. Having just reached the age of 21, he was about to begin life on his own.

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – 15 April 1865) was the 16th President of the United States of America. He served as president for 5 years, from 4 March 1861 until his assassination by John Wilkes Booth on 15 April 1865.

Despite becoming a successful lawyer, Lincoln did not have a degree. His total schooling, obtained from travelling teachers, is estimated to total only around 1 year.

Though lawyers are often considered untrustworthy, his reputation for honesty and fairness helped ‘Honest Abe’ win local elections.

In March 1830 the Lincoln family undertook a second migration, this time to Illinois, with Lincoln himself driving the team of oxen.

He was the first bearded US President, the first to hold a patent and the first to be in an inaugural photograph. John Wilkes Booth can also be seen in the photo, standing on a balcony above.

Having just reached the age of 21, he was about to begin life on his own. Six feet four inches tall, he was rawboned and lanky but muscular and physically powerful.

Lincoln married Mary Todd of Lexington Kentucky on 4 November 1842. Several of her half-brothers died serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

He was especially noted for the skill and strength with which he could wield an ax. He spoke with a backwoods twang and walked in the long-striding, flat-footed, cautious manner of a plowman.

Lincoln was long allied with abolitionists and outlawed slavery by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation on 1 January 1863, legally freeing some 3 million slaves.

However, in his first inaugural address, Lincoln stated that he had ‘no lawful right’ to ‘interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists’.

Good-natured though somewhat moody, talented as a mimic and storyteller, he readily attracted friends. But he was yet to demonstrate whatever other abilities he possessed.

There were abolitionists, slavery supporters, pro-unionists and neutral sentiments in both the North and South, but it was Confederate secessionists who began the war by firing on Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861.

Lincoln responded by sending troops to recapture lost forts and ‘preserve the Union’.

One of the principal purposes of the Secret Service is to protect national leaders such as the President. It is possible that their presence would have saved Lincoln’s life.

The President’s security, John Parker, left his post to watch the play at Washington, DC’s Ford’s Theatre and went to the saloon next door during intermission. It was the same place that John Wilkes Booth was drinking.

No one knows where Parker was when Lincoln was killed.

Not long before the President was assassinated, Edwin Booth, a famous actor at the time, pulled Robert Lincoln to safety at a train station after he had fallen on the tracks. It was just as a train was about to leave the station.

Along with George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt, most polls of academic historians, political scientists and the general public put Lincoln as one of the 3 all-time greats.