In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

`` The pattern '', says Dr. Morton Schillinger, psychologist at New York's Lincoln Institute for Psychotherapy, `` is for the husband to hover about anxiously and eagerly, virtually trembling in his hope that she will flash him the signal that tonight is the night ''.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

In 1832, at age 23, Lincoln and a partner bought a small general store on credit in New Salem, Illinois.

Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

After an opposing witness testified seeing the crime in the moonlight, Lincoln produced a Farmers ' Almanac showing the moon was at a low angle, drastically reducing visibility.

On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.

William Tecumseh Sherman talked to Lincoln during inauguration week and was " sadly disappointed " at his failure to realize that " the country was sleeping on a volcano " and that the South was preparing for war.

" Running the ' Machine ' ": An 1864 political cartoon takes a swing at Lincoln's administration — featuring William Fessenden, Edwin Stanton, William H. Seward | William Seward, Gideon Welles, Lincoln and others.

After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.

Privately, Lincoln concluded at this point that the slave base of the Confederacy had to be eliminated.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

General Ulysses S. Grant's victories at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign impressed Lincoln and made Grant a strong candidate to head the Union Army.

Lincoln then made an extended visit to Grant's headquarters at City Point, Virginia.

During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!

Confederate Vice President Stephens led a group to meet with Lincoln, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads.

* Abraham Lincoln at C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits

Walt Disney and a staff of Imagineers created Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln that debuted at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Lincoln ’ s assessment of the political issue for the 1860 elections was that, " This question of Slavery was more important than any other ; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present.

Moyers was inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them.

" Lincoln died around 7: 00 A. M .; Johnson's swearing in occurred at 11: 00 that morning with Chief Justice Salmon Chase presiding in the presence of most of the cabinet.

He began to formulate plans to kidnap Lincoln from his summer residence at the Old Soldiers Home, three miles ( 5 km ) from the White House, and to smuggle him across the Potomac River into Richmond.

The Old Soldiers Home, where Booth planned to kidnap Lincoln

On March 17, Booth learned that Lincoln would be attending a performance of the play Still Waters Run Deep at a hospital near the Soldier's Home.

Booth assembled his team on a stretch of road near the Soldier's Home in the attempt to kidnap Lincoln en route to the hospital, but the president did not appear.

* President Lincoln and Soldiers ' Home National Monument, Washington DC

In 1914, Larsen enrolled in the nursing school at New York City's Lincoln Hospital and Nursing Home.

The family resided in the Pine Acre Mobile Home Park in northeast Lincoln, and JoAnn worked as a clerk in a women's retail store in Lincoln to support the family.

* Lincoln Home District ( serving Sangamon & Menard Counties )

The George Rogers Clark Council was formed by Scouts of Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Crawford, Scott, and Washington counties in 1927, and merged with Old Kentucky Home Council in 1993 to form the Lincoln Heritage Council, which serves Scouts in Kentucky and Indiana.

In the mid-2000s, Pell City experienced a period of rapid residential and commercial growth ( estimated population around 16, 000, excluding the unincorporated residential areas just south of the city along the lakefront ) spurred, partly, by the opening of the Honda Plant in nearby Lincoln, Alabama, a new industrial park on its northeastern border and by a new retail area on the north side of I-20 anchored by a Wal-Mart, Home Depot, several fast food and casual dining restaurants.

Lincoln has Lincoln Elementary School, Charles R. Drew Middle School, and Lincoln High School, Home of The Golden Bears.

There are also 31 elementary schools in the city: John Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Cesar Chavez, Corona Ranch, Coronita, Eastvale, Dwight Eisenhower, Foothill, Ben Franklin, Garretson, Harada, Highland, Home Gardens, Jefferson, Lincoln Alternative, William McKinley, Norco, Orange, Parkridge, Prado View, Promenade, Rosa Parks, Riverview, Sierra Vista, Stallings, Temescal Valley, Dr. Bernice Todd, Vandermolen, Vicentia, Victress Bower, George Washington and Woodrow Wilson.

It has four high schools: Marysville High, Lindhurst High School, Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts, and Abraham Lincoln Home School.

The other 3 schools are Home, Edison ( Both in Stickney ), and Lincoln, which is in Brookfield.

Then, in 1862, during an American tour, she sang John Howard Payne's Home, Sweet Home at the White House for the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and his wife, Mary Lincoln.

Their home from 1844 until 1861 still stands in Springfield, and has been designated the Lincoln Home National Historic Site.

* Lincoln Home National Historic Site

Until at least the first half of season 6, Bobby drives a 1980s Lincoln Mark VII, and his family car after marrying Janice is a third generation Jeep Grand Cherokee, which, in Soprano Home Movies, he backs into a tree while drunk.

The five senators, Riegle, Alan Cranston ( Democrat of California ), Dennis DeConcini ( Democrat of Arizona ), John Glenn ( Democrat of Ohio ), and John McCain ( Republican of Arizona ), were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of a regulatory investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board ( FHLBB ).