Lincoln insisted the moral foundation of the Republicans required opposition to slavery, and rejected any " groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong ".

Garfield argued with his superior for an immediate advance, also insisted upon by Lincoln and Rosecrans's commander, Gen. Halleck.

The Regulator captain Dick Brewer assured them they would be taken to Lincoln, but other Regulators insisted on killing the prisoners.

Hooker's biographer reports that there were numerous stories indicating that Abraham Lincoln attempted to intercede with Sherman, urging that Hooker be appointed to command the Army of the Tennessee, but Sherman threatened to resign if the president insisted.

This position was rejected by nationalists like Abraham Lincoln, who insisted on holding the Union together while gradually ending slavery.

Some ( including Stephen A. Douglas ) maintained that the territory could not restrict slavery, as under the earlier Missouri Compromise, while others ( including Abraham Lincoln ) insisted that older Mexican legal traditions, which forbade slavery, took precedence.

At all times Lincoln insisted that he controlled the issue — only he had the war powers.

President Lincoln insisted that construction of the U. S. Capitol continue during the Civil War.

Writing to Speed on August 24, 1855, Lincoln made the latter point clear.

She kept the dolls on the Lincoln bed.

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.

Of course, while in this vicinity you won't want to miss a visit to Mount Rushmore National Memorial where on the side of a mountain are the famous sculptures of Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.

The popularity of local color literature before the Spanish-American War, the steady currency of the Lincoln myth, the increased emphasis on the frontier West in our mass media are cases in point.

The reception was held in a private dining room of the Webster Hotel on Lincoln Park West.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

alt = A statue of young Lincoln sitting on a stump, holding a book open on his lap

Lincoln later noted that this move was " partly on account of slavery " but mainly due to land title difficulties.

In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

It was then that, as an ambitious 22-year-old, Lincoln decided to seek a better life and struck out on his own.

" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.

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, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

Lincoln demanded that Polk show Congress the exact spot on which blood had been shed and prove that the spot was on American soil.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

Instead of holding Lincoln in contempt of court as was expected, the judge, a Democrat, reversed his ruling, allowing the evidence and acquitting Harrison.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

In a short time the Village of Lincoln was left holding its hands out as its population declined along with its political influence.

In 1971, Princeton University ( which owned most of the town ) and Lincoln Properties, Inc., together developed the area into what it is now, a large suburban town still holding on to its rural past.

Walter was holding a prebend in the diocese of Lincoln by 1183 and was chancellor of the diocese by 1186.

Among the public collections holding works by Barnett Newman are the Addison Gallery of American Art ( Andover, Massachusetts ), the Allen Memorial Art Museum ( Oberlin College, Ohio ), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Berlin State Museums, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard University Art Museums, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ( Washington D. C .), the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art ( Japan ), Kunstmuseum Basel ( Switzerland ), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Menil Collection ( Houston, Texas ), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ( Madrid ), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art ( New York City ), the Nasher Sculpture Center ( Dallas, Texas ), the Nassau County Museum of Art ( Roslyn Harbor, New York ), the National Gallery of Art ( Washington D. C .), the National Gallery of Canada ( Ottawa ), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Sheldon Museum of Art ( Lincoln, Nebraska ), the Smithsonian American Art Museum ( Washington D. C .), Stedelijk Museum ( Amsterdam ), the Tate Gallery ( London ), the Wadsworth Atheneum ( Hartford, Connecticut ), the Walker Art Center ( Minneapolis, Minnesota ), the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum ( Cologne, Germany ), and the Whitney Museum of American Art ( New York City ).

By 1970, he had become president of Lincoln Consolidated, a financial holding institution.

On February 23, 1861, amid several assassination threats, detective Allan Pinkerton smuggled Abraham Lincoln into the Willard during the weeks before his inauguration ; there Lincoln lived until his inauguration on March 4, holding meetings in the lobby and carrying on business from his room.

In investor news, shareholders approved the formation of a holding company, Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. With this transition came a conversion from dual class stock ( voting and non-voting ) to a single-class, all voting stock.

Lincoln National Corporation is a Fortune 200 American holding company, which operates multiple insurance and investment management businesses through subsidiary companies.

Lincoln purchased Newton County Loan and Savings in order to restructure as a bank holding company and qualify for Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ) funding.

The Courtauld Institute of Art ( London ), the Dallas Museum of Art ( Dallas, Texas ), the Museum of Modern Art ( New York, NY ), the Harvard University Art Museums, the Whitney Museum of American Art ( New York, NY ), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art ( Indianapolis, Indiana ), the Sheldon Art Gallery ( Lincoln, Nebraska ), the Smithsonian American Art Museum ( Washington D. C .), the Tate Gallery ( London ) and the Walker Art Center ( Minneapolis, Minnesota ) are among the public collections holding work by James Brooks.

When the American Civil War began Mr. Sherman was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln paymaster in the Union army with the rank of major, holding the position for three years.

The tower was purchased by John Lincoln and Leslie L. LeVeque in 1945 for a fraction of the amount it cost to erect and also a fraction of what was owed to policy holders, subsequently those holding policies never received the full amount they were owed.

President Lincoln approved a bill in 1863 creating the Territory of Arizona, and appointed Richard McCormick, a businessman and journalist, as the territory's Secretary, and designed a seal which featured a bearded miner standing in front of a wheelbarrow, holding a pick, and a short-handled spade.