His father-in-law Andrew Johnson had succeeded as President of the United States following Lincoln's assassination the year before.

The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.

Lincoln's assassination was the first assassination of a U. S. president and sent the nation into mourning.

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.

Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.

Thomas Lincoln's new wife was the widow Sarah Bush Johnston, the mother of three children.

While young Lincoln's formal elementary education consisted approximately of a year's worth of classes from several itinerant teachers, he was mostly self-educated and was an avid reader.

Lincoln's first romantic interest was Ann Rutledge, whom he met when he first moved to New Salem ; by 1835, they were in a relationship but not formally engaged.

A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative.

From 1853 to 1860, another of Lincoln's largest clients was the Illinois Central Railroad.

Lincoln's most notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he defended William " Duff " Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker.

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: " I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper.

As the war drew to a close, Lincoln's presidential Reconstruction for the South was in flux ; having believed the federal government had limited responsibility to the millions of freedmen.

Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

" Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation applied initially only to states in rebellion ; Johnson rationalized that Tennessee in this regard was a part of the Union, and on that basis requested, and received, an exemption from the Proclamation.

Johnson's " unwavering commitment to the Union " was a significant factor in making him Lincoln's choice as vice president on the Union Party's premier ticket that year.

Shortly after Lincoln's death, Gen. William T. Sherman reported he had, without consulting Washington, reached an armistice agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, an agreement which was unacceptable to the President and outraged Stanton, since it made no provision for emancipation of slaves or freedmen's rights.

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.

President Lincoln and other Republicans were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation, which in 1863 declared the freedom of slaves in ten Confederate states then in rebellion, would be seen as a temporary war measure, since it was solely based on Lincoln's war powers.

Lincoln's defeat could well have meant the victory of the Confederacy, as the Democratic Party platform called for peace negotiations based on the acknowledgment of the Confederacy's independence.

On February 7, 1954, with President Eisenhower sitting in Lincoln's pew, the church's pastor, George MacPherson Docherty, delivered a sermon based on the Gettysburg Address titled " A New Birth of Freedom.

The Centre for Commercial Law Studies and LLM teaching and postgraduate law research activities are based in Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn.

The London School of Economics has recently moved onto the square, taking ownership of 50 Lincoln's Inn Fields, on the corner of Sardinia Street in 2003, where the School's Global Governance research centre is based.

Back in Britain he was unable to obtain a building in which to carry out his plan of a grand fresco based on his Italian experiences, though he did produce a 45 ft by 40 ft fresco on the upper part of the east wall of the Great Hall of Lincoln's Inn entitled Justice, A Hemicycle of Lawgivers inspired by Raphael's The School of Athens ( completed 1859 ).

Herndon was Lincoln's trusted aide until Lincoln became president and, in 1889 published a highly controversial biography of Lincoln based on numerous interviews.

Shenk dismissed Tripp's conclusions, stating that arguments on Lincoln's homosexuality were " based on a tortured misreading of conventional 19th century sleeping arrangements ".

His commission as a general was based not on his brief service in the Blackhawk War, but on Lincoln's desire to retain political connections with the Democrats of Southern Illinois.

The Head Office moved out of its famous Lincoln's Inn Fields building in March 2011 and is now based in Croydon.

Abraham Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln married Nancy Hanks in 1806 in Washington County, Kentucky.

Records do show that the convention adopted resolutions condemning President Lincoln for " waging a bloody and cruel war " against the South, urging Governor Beriah Magoffin to resist Union forces and praising him for refusing to answer Lincoln's call for soldiers, and condemning the provision of " Lincoln guns " to Union sympathizers in Kentucky.

Her research in the backwoods of Kentucky and Illinois uncovered the true story of Lincoln's childhood and youth.

No Indians lived permanently in Kentucky but they sent raiding parties to stop the newcomers, like Abe Lincoln's grandfather ( who was scalped in 1784 near Louisville.

During his congressional tenure, he guided the passage of several Kentucky landmarks and parks: Mammoth Cave National Park, Lincoln's birthplace, and the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery.

Records do show that the convention adopted resolutions condemning President Lincoln for " waging a bloody and cruel war " against the South, urging Governor Beriah Magoffin to resist Union forces and praising him for refusing to answer Lincoln's call for soldiers, and condemning the provision of " Lincoln guns " to Union sympathizers in Kentucky.

In the secession crisis that followed Abraham Lincoln's victory, Harlan sought to prevent Kentucky from seceding.

Kentucky and Missouri were both governed by pro-secessionist Southern Democratic Governors who vehemently rejected Lincoln's call for 75, 000 troops.

Powell became an outspoken critic of Lincoln's administration, so much so that the Kentucky General Assembly asked for his resignation and some of his fellow senators tried to have him expelled from the body.

While the state of Kentucky officially declared its neutrality early in the war, prominent Louisville attorney James Speed, brother of President Abraham Lincoln's close friend Joshua Fry Speed, strongly advocated keeping the state in the Union.