Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

* Abraham Lincoln's birthday: February 12, United States

Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history.

Adams became a leading opponent of slave power and articulated a theory whereby the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a correct prediction of Abraham Lincoln's use of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Abraham Lincoln's law office was next door to the law office of Milton Hay, John's uncle, and Lincoln thus became acquainted with John Hay.

* John Hay, Abraham Lincoln's Friend

In 2011, an 1866 letter written by William Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law partner, was auctioned off for US $ 30, 000.

over the dead of the Peloponnesian War ; Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863, soon after Sojourner Truth's identification of racial problem in " Ain't I a Woman?

After reading to his staff Abraham Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby, Marshall orders that Ryan be found and sent home immediately.

Virginia voted to secede from the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers.

* July 7 – Following Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 14, the four conspirators condemned to death during the trial are hanged, including David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Payne and Mary Surratt.

* September 17 – Abraham Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.

After Abraham Lincoln's election, Garfield was more inclined to arms than negotiations, saying, " Other states may arm to the teeth, but if Ohio so much as cleans her rusty muskets, it is said to have offended our brethren in the South.

The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).

Burton returned to Hollywood to star in Prince of Players, another historical Cinemascope film, this time concerning Edwin Booth, famous American actor and brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth.

* Abraham Lincoln's Eulogy of Henry Clay at Teaching American History. Org

Pinkerton's role in foiling the assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln was dramatized in the 2012 film Saving Lincoln, which tells President Lincoln's story through the eyes of Ward Hill Lamon, a former law partner of Lincoln who also served as his primary bodyguard during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege solemnly proceeded along Pennsylvania Avenue in 1865 ; only weeks later the end of the American Civil War was celebrated when the Army of the Potomac paraded more joyously along the avenue.

They chose to juxtapose Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address with that of Confederate president Jefferson Davis ; they debated removing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and labor-leader César Chávez and rejected calls to include more Hispanic figures, in spite of the high Hispanic population in the state.

The first public memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington D. C. was a statue by Lot Flannery erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after Lincoln's assassination.

He returned to Bloomington where he wrote for the family newspaper, The Daily Pantagraph, which was founded by his maternal great grandfather Jesse W. Fell, who had also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager in his 1858 race for the US Senate.

In contrast to President Abraham Lincoln's more lenient Ten Percent Plan, the bill made re-admittance to the Union for former Confederate states contingent on a majority in each Southern state to take the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy.

* February 23 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D. C. after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.

The incumbent President, Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the presidency in 1865 following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, was unsuccessful in his attempt to receive his Democratic presidential nomination due to his unpopularity.

Rabbi Abraham Danzig was the first in the Lithuanian Jewish community to attempt a summary of the opinions in the abovementioned works in his Chayei Adam and Chochmath Adam.

In other chapters of the Qur ' an, however, which date from the Medina period, Ishmael is mentioned closely with his father Abraham: Ishmael stands alongside Abraham in their attempt to set up the Kaaba in Mecca as a place of monotheistic pilgrimage ( II: 127-129 ) and Abraham thanks God for granting him Ishmael and Isaac in his old age ( XIV: 35-41 ).

For instance, during his time in the state legislature, Abraham Lincoln leapt out of a first story window ( the doors of the Capitol had been locked to prevent legislators from fleeing ) in a failed attempt to prevent a quorum from being present.

It was here in 1861 that Abraham Lincoln met a little girl named Grace Bedell, who, during the preceding year's Presidential campaign, urged Lincoln by letter to grow his beard out fully as an attempt to improve his chances at being elected.

Du Pont's attempt to garner the support of President Abraham Lincoln was ignored, and he returned home to Delaware.

According to Abraham Vered, researcher of Israeli popular culture, the popularity of the name might also derive from an attempt to emulate the ( etymologically unconnected ) European name " Annette ".

Campbell was one of the three Confederate Peace Commissioners ( along with Alexander H. Stephens and Robert M. T. Hunter ), who met with Abraham Lincoln and William H. Seward at the Hampton Roads Conference ( 1865 ) in an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate an end to the Civil War.

The phrase in reverse is echoed in Abraham Lincoln's words in his February 26, 1860, Cooper Union Address (" Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it ") in his attempt to defend a policy of neutral engagement with those who practised slavery, perhaps to appear more nationally oriented and religiously convicted in hopes of winning the presidential election later that year ( which he did ).

It was suggested that Abraham only accounted for the momentum of the electromagnetic fields, and his equation was an attempt to take into account the momentum of the material as well.

On December 27, on Monday Night Football against the New Orleans Saints, Abraham recorded his first career interception after deflecting and catching a Drew Brees pass attempt.

In it, the author claimed that there was no proof that Smith made any attempt to translate the plates: " There is no evidence that the Prophet Joseph Smith ever took up the matter with the Lord, as he did when working with the Book of Mormon and the Book of Abraham ".

* February 23, 1861: The people of Texas ratified its Ordinance of Secession President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington, D. C. after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.

When it became clear the British were going to make a second attempt on Charleston in 1780, the state procured additional ships, and the naval defense of Charleston was passed to Continental Navy captain Abraham Whipple.

In January 1991, Abraham helped to crush a coup attempt by Roger Lafontant.

On 5 February 2010, Judge Abraham Penn Jones ordered the tape must be turned over to the court as part of a case to determine if hush money paid to Hunter by Edwards ' 2008 Presidential Campaign constituted a violation of campaign finance laws.

They branched into finance in 1802 with the founding of their own bank, Isaac Camondo & Cie. On Isaac's death in 1832 his brother Abraham Salomon Camondo inherited the bank.

* 1862 – To finance the American Civil War, the federal government under U. S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a legal tender paper money, the " greenbacks ".